Word: window
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressers and cutters, sample-makers and finishers, their clothes all somehow keep a memory of the immigrants' bundle, of steamy East Side kitchens, of under-shirted evenings at an open window. In the shops above, "the girls" gossip over their box lunches at the long tables among stacks of unfinished "garments" (it is never "blouses" or "slips" or "dresses" in the Center...
...Fifty-seven and a half inches in diameter, weighing 7,000 pounds, it is more stoutly built (of 1¾ in. steel) for the tremendous pressures at lower depths-2,000 pounds per square inch at 4,500 feet. It also has a new three-inch quartz window, slanted toward the bottom; the Bathysphere had side windows only. It carries a six-hour supply of oxygen in cylinders, fans to keep the air circulating, and trays of soda lime to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by breathing...
...Window. Razor-edged suspense and terror as felt through the pulse of a tenement kid; with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
...Bishop peered at the red-faced stranger in the yard next door. The man was staring straight up at the bathroom where Bishop's wife was making splashing sounds in the wash basin; suddenly he burst into a clumsy dance of delight and blew a kiss to the window...
...entry: Dined C. D. evening. Party. Nuff Said. To Henry, Nuff Said meant wickedly delightful. Reveling in his betrayal, Henry manufactured situations to throw Madge and Diver together. He faked a business trip and returned unexpectedly to find somebody's cigarette in Madge's bedroom (the window cleaner's, she said). In a little notebook he carefully wrote down all his "evidence...