Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the acute stage of the Moscow Trials, when one famed old Bolshevik after another was being convicted of "Trotskyism" and shot, newspaper cartoonists in many lands spontaneously got the same idea. They drew the Dictator facing his reflection in a looking glass and shouting: "Traitor, confess! You too are a Trotskyist!" Last week there were epochal goings on in Moscow which made such cartoons even more appropriate than during the Trials...
...Reimann and his assistant, Bernard J. Miller, obtained an ovum from a Negro woman in the hospital, placed it in a drop of clear white serum strained from human blood, suspended the drop from a glass slide and placed it under a microscope...
...glass needle, fine as a hair, was mechanically pushed against the egg until it went through the elastic membrane. It was immediately withdrawn...
Outside Westminster Abbey, while London police stood guard before locked doors, passersby saw a glint of light through stained-glass windows. Inside the Abbey, from behind a canvas screen in Poets' Corner, came the clanking of picks. Near the base of Edmund Spenser's monument gravediggers scooped up sand from beneath the stones, uncovered a lead coffin and evidences that two more bodies had been buried in the same grave...
Early this morning thieves broke into Claus Gelotte's camera store at 1290 Massachusetts Avenue, smashing a plate glass window and taking a $350 camera...