Word: compartmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civil Servant. In Salt Lake City, after he called police and asked them to remove a dog that had been run over near his home, M. S. McRae was referred to the city dog catcher, was unable to reach him, indignantly called the mayor, was amazed to see Mayor Earl...
Died. Robert W. Wilcox, 45, often-separated actor-husband of Actress Diana Barrymore; of a heart attack; in his New York Central Railroad compartment en route from Manhattan to Rochester.
Spaciousness and privacy are emphasized from stem to stern. The traditional three-tiered bunks for crewmen remain -but with a difference. They have been ' compartmentalized like Pullman berths, with lightweight, perforated "privacy partitions." Each bunk is equipped with a bed lamp and a pocket for books. Each tier of three has a fireproof, "Sandbrown" curtain, and most are ventilated with electric fans. There are nearly twice as many lockers as sailors aboard. Each compartment has folding chairs, a table and a hi-fi radio speaker as standard equipment...
Before the flight, biologists removed the inner ear sensory system of one of the mice, left the other normal, and put each in a "compartment in a rotating smooth-walled drum with an irregularity that afforded a possible foothold for each." Cameras recorded the brief critical no-gravity point of...
The youth already had a watch in his hand, taken from the glove compartment, and the girl's cigarette lighter in his pocket when Dellera caught him.