Word: window
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that is not as innocent as it looks, the youngsters are exposed to temptation, have their curiosity aroused and are purposely frustrated while an observer watches them through a one-way screen; even moving pictures can be taken of the unsuspecting youngsters through a mirror that is really a window...
Early this morning thieves broke into Claus Gelotte's camera store at 1290 Massachusetts Avenue, smashing a plate glass window and taking a $350 camera...
Socrates sat up on his couch and rubbed his leg where the chains had grated against the skin. Dusty streaks of the afternoon sun cut through the prison window. At his feet fourteen men squatted on the floor and marvelled at his quiet courage in the face of--death. Was this death, they thought, do men ever die this...
...Philharmonic, Nadia Boulanger conducting, with the composer at the piano; Victor: 4 sides). One of the friskiest foals in the Parisian paddock. 26-year-old Composer Françaix is as yet practically unknown to U. S. listeners. His neat, chattering concerto is the most skilful bit of musical window-dressing that has been exported from Paris in a long time...
...Winthrop, they climbed the fence to open a window, but in the Leverett House room the raiders broke the pane, after climbing to the second story from a nearby shed...