Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Out of the Canal. German prisoners of war, crawling back from the Bolshevik wastes after World War I, brought with them legends of the escape of one of the Russian royal family. In 1920 the half-dead body of an unidentified young woman was dragged from a Berlin canal. She...
He cannot see, even for a moment, through another's eyes, and so modification of his own vision is impossible. Instead, he hears, classifies, and reacts to the ready-made categories, ad infinitum. Loneliness is a narcotic, and like a narcotic we find it very difficult to escape, despite our...
Samuel Bernstein, the son of a Hasidic scholar, fled Russia when he was 16, to escape both the Czar's draft and the ghetto life. In New York City, in 1910, he found a job cleaning fish underneath the Brook lyn Bridge, for $1 a day. After a while he...
The battery's power comes from promethium 147 (one of the more plentiful byproducts of nuclear fission), which emits low-energy beta particles (electrons). Other atomic batteries have attempted to turn beta particles directly into electric current, but they have often run into trouble because the particles damage the...
At 137, Bob Cook completely outclassed Amherst's Spencer Bloch, winning the decision 3 to 0, on an escape and a near-fall. Cook almost pinned Bloch at the edge of the mat, but the outside mat slipped, preventing him from getting the necessary everage.