Word: mell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...credible the violent agonies of an inchoate young peasant priest on the way to sainthood. At their first climax young Father Donnisan contends with Satan face to face and conquers him; at their second, the same night, he meets the young girl, so shatters her that she retreats pell-mell to Satan, cuts her throat. The priest is locked up as a madman. Later he is given an obscure parish...
...these thoughts flashed pell-mell through 75,000 minds, the thudding hoofs were coming closer. By the grandstand they flashed: Austin Taylor's Whichcee in front, Seabiscuit half a length behind. Rounding into the backstretch, the old trouper kept up with Whichcee's swift pace. Down the long stretch, silhouetted against the purple Sierra Madres, the Biscuit seemed glued to Whichcee's tail. Louder & louder the crowd roared as they seesawed coming into the homestretch-Seabiscuit nosing in front, then falling back, then in front again. Approaching the grandstands, Red Pollard flipped his whip and the Biscuit...
Sucked along in the pell-mell wake of an expanding chemical universe, Eastman chemists next tried molding the cellulose acetate into sheets, other forms. It worked.The product, a plastic called Tenite I, went into production in 1933. Its uses were staggering-anything from clothes pins to telephones. Detroit motormakers snapped it up. This year it is a rare automobile that does not have a cellulose acetate steering wheel, door handle or other part, mostly Eastman-made...