Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Above an open window in a house near the Kremlin Gate that still bears the name of Trotsky there stretched a large red streamer in the centre of which was a large picture of L. D. Trotsky himself. Matters grew serious when at the open window there appeared the head of Trotsky in the flesh, not to mention the head of his brother-in-law, Leo Borisovitch Kam-ener. Some of the crowd jeered, others cheered. Then something attracted their attention...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, attended and argued for a form of confessional in Protestant churches as a means of relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems...
Take the famous Rinehart tradition, for instance. The sleepy Senior roused from his slumbers at midnight by the wailing echoes across the Yard wonders if there was ever a time when a Senior might put his head out of the window of a Yard dormitory and shout the magic word "Rinehart" without anywhere from two to 20 other Seniors growling or roaring or barking the same word in reply. There was such a time, and that only about 30 years ago. The pathetic tale of the lonely student who heard other students being called by friends, but was never called...
...clock in the afternoon, tiptoed into a room, followed by the manager and a policeman. The room was in some disorder. Photographs were littered across the bed; a few had slid down to the floor. A picture of a girl was propped up on a chair near the window and in the corner three theatrical costumes were heaped on top of a trunk. A man was kneeling by the bed, .his hands stiffly and desperately twisted together, his head pushed down against his arms. He did not say anything when the three people came into the room. The policeman touched...
...Already in Birmingham, England, schools have ordered their window panes replaced with glass constructed to permit passage of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight (TIME...