Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote in 1935 that his own family had increased by 100 per cent (with the birth of two of his three children) and his income had decreased by the same proportion. Ten years later he wrote confidently that "I find myself not at all ashamed to be tagged a Wall Streeter." He also considers himself a "red-hot capitalist...
...Final Shot. Weyer now had only to substantiate Violet's story with physical proof. Into the case came Ballistics Expert Stanley MacDonald, Multnomah County detective chief in Portland, Ore. MacDonald examined fabric shreds, wall sections, photographs, figured the directions of the four shots, compared firings from the shotgun. Two months later he presented his findings: Marion Sill had fired three times at Violet, then reloaded the gun; the fourth shot, which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore...
...left circumflex artery, Dr. Bailey opened the man's chest, snipped some ribs and put them aside, then slit open the heart sac. He was fortunate in being able to see the site of the 1953 shutdown where the left circumflex was embedded in the heart wall. Near the end of the artery he made a slit: instead of a spurt of blood, as there would have been in a healthy subject, he got a mere trickle. Through this slit Dr. Bailey inserted the business end of the curette and gradually worked it up the artery against the direction...
...technical approval had the unhappy effect of putting Holophane-and possibly other companies -in a position of double jeopardy. By competing abroad, Holophane leaves itself open to law suits in Britain and France, where courts may not recognize the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Commented the Wall Street Journal: "The four justices who voted against the decision . . . must content themselves with observing of the Supreme Court what Alice said of herself: 'Curiouser and curiouser! Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever...
Free Fall. In Santa Ana. Calif., after he and ten other prisoners escaped by way of the jail roof, were captured. James E. Barrett alibied: "There was a hole in the wall and I just fell through...