Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Justice Siddons eyed the young man, then gazed out a window. . . . Filial loyalty? . . . Miscarried justice? . . . Justice Siddons fined the young man $1,000 and called the father...
...Before my God I am innocent as a child unborn. I knew nothing about this thing until it was all over . . . !" The judge looked sharply at the great detective, who slumped back into his chair humiliated. The judge gazed out the window again, then made a long speech in a low voice. ". . . That he [Father Burns] knew of this surveillance I cannot doubt, and that he knew it from the time it began." The judge concluded: ". . . You are guilty of contempt of court. . . . Men of high character sometimes make mistakes. Your sentence is fifteen days in the Washington jail...
Misshapen and frayed as a badly done potato pancake, the old horned toad that lugubriously blinked in the Eastland, Tex., drugstore window last week proved all the lies that Texans had ever told of Nature's antics in their state. The reptile had lived for 31 years in the sealed hollow of the local courthouse cornerstone. So averred honest men who had just dug it out, and one remembered having planned to put a horned toad in the stone at its laying 31 years ago. The idea then, and even now, in Texas is that a horned toad...
...Coolidge, working with able assistants at the Schenectady research laboratories of General Electric, two years ago succeeded more magnificently. For his window he used a sheet of nickel 1/2000 of an inch thin. (Human hair varies between 6/1000 and 126/10,000 of an inch in diameter.) And he used 350,000 volts of current. Electrons hurtled through the nickel foil, speeding about 150,000 miles a second (four-fifths the speed of light). As beta and gamma rays, similar to the offshoots from radium, they turned acetylene gas into a yellow powder such as scientists never before had seen. They...
...this snarl that Mrs. Dominic Spirito & two offspring, Mrs. Hugo Hoffman & two offspring, scurried quickly to their rooms, from the half opened doors of which they peeped down at the mongrel with frightened faces. Eleven-year-old Benjamin Guieto, observing the terrified women and children, jumped out the window and got a policeman. The policeman came up behind the prowling mongrel and shot him dead...