Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wiry physique which can go through many a crisis. The contest was predicted to last three days and fifteen hours, meals being supplied by a neighboring restaurant, also patronized by Harvard undergraduates: There were five policemen added to the beat, on account of various threats of brickbats through a window and caffein tablets in the soup of the man who seemed to be carrying his class to victory. There is a room in Still-man infirmary and two trained nurses held in readiness for the first to succumb...
...doleful beat of a funeral march. Soldiers, sailors and citizens, the cortege moved east through old Chelsea. To the curbs from tenements and factories packed workingmen, old men, shawled grandmothers, women with babies. "There's Lindy!" went up an eager cry. Col. Lindbergh pulled down the window-shade of his limousine. The procession wove its slow way through Manhattan streets to the Grand Central Terminal, where the coffin was placed aboard a special train, carried to Cleveland for interment...
...Walter Raleigh was in his prison composing the second volume of his History of the World. Leaning on the sill of his window he meditated on the duties of the historian to mankind, when suddenly his attention was attracted by a disturbance before his cell. He saw one man strike another, whom he supposed by his dress to be an officer; the latter at once drew his sword and ran the former through the body. The wounded man felled his adversary with a stick, and then sank upon the pavement. At this juncture the guard came up and carried...
...Lawrence. A development of the past few years is the prescription office, with its waiting room like a doctor's or dentist's. In small communities, despite the handiness of telephones and the ubiquity of physicians, the druggist still has his red and green gloves in his window, still has a bell button for emergency customers to wake him up in the middle of night for oil of cloves or paregoric...
...occupant of the business office by Raymond Mathewson Hood of Manhattan may look out on sooty roofs, but he will see them through a huge, tinted window with dim floral designs in the glass. The staunch desk is metallic, L-shaped, with a built-in clock...