Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pope and his maumetry"), and jolly sectarian scuttlebutt about such adulterous priests as the one who, "haunting to an honest man's wife, was subtly taken creeping through a window, and hanged out of the window in a gin laid for him of purpose." The body of his book recites in grisly detail and with respectable accuracy the martyrology of a mournful century in which as many as 84 Englishmen in a single year were burned as "filthye Hereticks...
Court tennis, however has remained almost unchanged. The only major modification occured during the reign of Henry VIII in England. Formerly, there was a small window, "la lune" or "the moon," high up on the wall, and a ball hit through it gave several extra points...
...crucial match, however, Henry aimed a vital shot for the window and missed, losing both shot and game. A royal decree for the removal of the window was issued, Pell explained, and "there's never been a moon shot since...
Holography produces no familiar photographic negative or print. But when light is directed upon a holographic negative-or hologram-its smudgy and apparently meaningless patterns of concentric circles and parallel lines become a window through which a viewer sees the scene that was photographed. By moving his head from side to side, he can look through that window at different angles and change the perspective of the three-dimensional view; he can look around an object in the foreground to see what is behind it, just as if he were examining the actual scene...
...world over. For instance, a visiting American, shopping for a matched pair of horses, was led by a Hawaiian native trader to a little stable, unfortunately locked, as the trader's brother had gone to the country with the key. The purchaser examined one horse critically through a window, went around the stable, and examined the other through a window at the other end. The match was perfect, the deal concluded on the spot, and the salesman went off-leaving his client to discover for himself that he had bought the same horse twice...