Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican Council of 1962 may be the window that has been needed for Protestants and non-Christians to look into the Roman Catholic Church as it really is, as well as the means whereby the Roman Catholic Church can see the real world in which it finds itself...
Sloane shows how to build a house without a nail in it that will go up and stay up for hundreds of years, how to make a bottle-glass window, a fieldstone grike, a folding ladder, a wooden tub, a cider press. Two ways to stack cordwood. A recipe for brown ink ("Boiled down walnut or butternut hulls that have been mashed first. Add vinegar and salt to boiling water to 'set' "). From king posts to roofing, Author Sloane details the construction of a covered bridge, which was an 1805 innovation. George Washington never...
Sitting at his favorite place in the Widener reading room, near the windows and directly off the center aisle, Gridley often wondered why Nathan Pusey had chosen Massachusett Hall for his office and left the real seat of power to any chance comer. He turned to the left and surveyed the Yard; all of Harvard lay below his throne. A bearded old man hurrying to finish his last book sat across from a closely twined couple not even pretending an interest in the copy of Burckhardt open before them. Through the main arch he could just make out the automatic...
...hours later, Gridley slipped away, exhausted. He sat on a window sill debating with himself the best way to enter the Houghton stacks. There was the easy way, the tunnel from Widener, or he might go in by the front door and use the staff entrance in the Houghton first basement, that unobtrusive little door that leads to so much. "The tunnel's safer," he decided and searched for another key. Soon he had traversed an empty tunnel and let himself into Houghton's impregnable, immaculate catacombs. All was silence except for the air-conditioning system maintaining a constant temperature...
...ledger was artificially fattened when France. Italy and Sweden agreed to pay off ahead of schedule some $664 million in postwar U.S. loans. And "outgo" was probably reduced by several hundred million dollars because some European and Canadian banks refrained in 1962 from their usual year-end "window dressing"-the practice of bolstering cash balances for the annual report by temporarily pulling back money on deposit...