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Word: cells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Composer Walton, one of the smart devotees of arty London Poetess Edith Sitwell, started out in the early 19205 doing clever satirical fluff. But when, in 1931, he burst from her mother-of-pearly cell with a fire-belching oratorio called Belshazzar's Feast, the international musical world sat up and took notice. His First Symphony, which followed, got him talked about in terms of Finland's Jean Sibelius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sitwell to Heifetz | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...young Lifer Whitsitt's chief pastime is broadcasting. For the last three years he has been Jackson prison's official newscaster, reporting daily prison news and gossip to 4,100 of the 5,440 inmates over the prison's elaborate cell-to-cell hookup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...athlete who after an exhausting workout wonders "is it worth it?"; for the bespectacled lad who in his Widener cell asks himself "where is this getting me?"; for the socialite who in Hayes-Bickford at 5 a.m. muses "why do I ever go to Boston parties?"; for the Brooks House missionary who in the squalor of the slums demands "what can I do for them?";--for these men particularly the Crimson has been proven to have the greatest value. Now if your life--or your shy modesty--prevents you from being included in any one of the aforementioned categories there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TONIGHT AT SEVEN-THIRTY | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

...with painful clarity the dangers that will accrue to this and coming generations from the neglect or nonrecognition, the minimizing and the gradual abolition of rights peculiar to the family. . . . The stress of our times . . . and countless repercussions are tasted by none so bitterly as that noble little cell, the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Non Licet! | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Blood deprived of oxygen darkens, gradually turns purple. Dr. McClure attaches a sensitive photoelectric cell to the ear, and the cell, literally seeing beneath the skin, records minute changes in blood-color long before the anesthetist notes approaching collapse. Thus vital stimulants can be given the moment the patient needs them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sawbones | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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