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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tidy Habits. From Crumple-Wing and her kin, Shafer learned some inside details of the mud dauber's life cycle. One of the most striking was the insect's built-in sanitary facilities. Each egg is laid in a separate mud cell, along with perhaps a dozen spiders which have been paralyzed by the mother wasp's sting. After the larva hatches from the egg, it begins to eat the spiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life Among the Mud Daubers | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...defence of the English political scientist, Rowland C. W. Brown, president of the Law School Forum, pointed out that Laski had led a drive to cleanse the British Labor Party of a communist cell and had written a strongly anti-communist pamphlet, "The Secret Battalion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laski to Speak on Labor in Politics | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...cell; Plumb the stars depth, your lead bumps

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coping With the Flood | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Prisoner Strong was examined by a woman doctor, then locked in a solitary cell with a peephole through which guards could watch her. A bright light glared down in her face. "All night between snatches of sleep, I faced my sins." Why was she there? Her best guesses: 1) she had annoyed somebody by trying to get to China via the "closed" Manchurian frontier; 2) it was a "stupidity of some department eager to make a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Lady & the Commissar | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Already Saga's little cell of Communists has wilted under the pressure. On the second day of the instruction classes, a group of Red hecklers were so effectively silenced by an onslaught of Thomist dialectics that they have not shown up since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Conversion of a Village | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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