Word: cells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...punchboards referred to are lotteries conducted in drug stores, candy shops, shoe-parlors. The gambler, after paying a fee, punches a numbered slip of paper out of its cell in a square honeycomb. The right number wins a prize. Among the prizes obtainable by school-attending minors were, allegedly, revolvers...
...General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America, described his progress in the projection of motion pictures by radio. A central difficulty, the translation of optical images into electric current capable of impelling bands of ether waves, had already been surmounted by experimenters with the photoelectric cell and amplifier, used in motionless television and telephotography. Dr. Alexanderson's feat was to utilize a beam of light (which in motionless telephotography has from 2 to 20 minutes to trace and transmit the desired light-pattern or image) at unprecedented speed, so that it could render a complete image within...
...hills, played a deadly kind of squat tag with all the British troops that came where he was. At last a sly captain named Burges chased him into a cave that had no back door. He was tried for rebellion, sentenced to life imprisonment in a hot cell in Egypt. After 22 years Parliament remembered that this fighting man was still alive. Judged him harmless, let him out. He spent the quiet evening of his days playing with a gourd rattle in the door of a hut. He died...
...help Nathan F. Leopold Jr., the boy who killed for a thrill, escape with them. "His old man has lots of cash," they said, "he will set us up." But young Leopold was padlocked in solitary confinement for stealing the prison's sugar. They could not open his cell; he would have to be left behind...
...Debs came from his cell with a gospel. In Chicago, 100,000 cheered him as he roared out his speech on "Liberty." Then, strangely enough, he stumped for Candidate Bryan in 1896. A year later the Socialist party was born, and in five presidential elections from 1900 to 1920 (except in 1916) Mr. Debs was a candidate, polling almost a million votes in each of his last two campaigns...