Word: sills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurried downstairs and notified the parents. All three ran back upstairs. The first thing they did was to inspect the floor to see if the child had crawled somewhere. He had not. One more look around the room disclosed muddy footprints, an open windowscreen and a note on the sill below. Exact contents of the note have never been revealed, but if, like most notes of the same kind, it warned against police intervention, Col. Lindbergh brusquely disregarded the warning. He could have had no idea of the overwhelming glare of press and police activity which was shortly to ignite...
...received a tel phone message to hurry over to a home in the upper Eighties, off Park Avenue." The physician "was conducted upstairs to a bathroom on the third floor where a middle-aged woman wrapped in bath towels was seated" on what polite Kolyumist Kitchen called "a window sill, part of the low window having been converted into a seat." Situation: the sill had been freshly painted; the lady was stuck, to move caused her extreme pain. Solution: the physician called for carpenter's tools, removed sill & lady, soaked her loose with gasoline...
...found dead yesterday morning at the bottom of an airshaft in the Somerset Hotel, 150 West Forty-seventh Street. Although police investigated the possibility that she might have jumped through the window of her room on the fourth floor, they believed later that she may have fallen over the sill of the airshaft while moving about her room in the early morning...
...year. According to the Council's officers, this is greatly encouraging in the face of a bad business year. The Council feels, as it has in the past, that it is most important that the Senior Class should start contributing to the Fund while its members are sill in College. In 1927, 267 men in the Senior Class of that year gave to the Fund, a record for any Senior Class...
Harvard v. Kent, No preparatory school in the U. S. does so well at rowing as Kent, where the boys have to sweep out the school buildings and make their beds before rowing practice, and where the rowing coach wears a skirt. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, Kent Headmaster, is the rowing coach; he wears his skirt because he is a member of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross (TIME, March 23). Every year his first and second crews start their season with a race against the first and second Harvard 150-lb. shells. Last week Father Sill...