Word: windowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the fire swept the Steel Car plant, twisting the rails of its three parallel tracks, gutting the beautiful "City of St. Joseph," melting its window panes to puddles but leaving its huge cylindrical body an eloquent testimonial to the man who first tried with all his might to realize the life-saving possibilities of steel cars, that man still fought on, though in failing health; but he had hardly given up the hope of rebuilding his plant before a little French doctor, who had attended his wife in New England, recommended a diet of thoroughly cooked whole wheat...
...huge handsome old man; his bushy eyebrows stuck out like wiry wings over his black eyes and a tooth was missing in the front of his mouth. The three men whom he had hexed drove up to his door that evening and Blymyer shouted up to the window, "Come down, Rehmeyer. We want the book...
...City. Mo., a nicely dressed gentleman entered the Catholic Cathedral. He was Henry J. Schepers. a bill collector. He knelt in prayer in a rear pew. Then, still kneeling, he drew a pistol from his pocket and blew a hole through his head. The bullet pierced a stained glass window with the gleaming legend THY SINS ARE FORGIVEN THEE. The bullet hole made a period for the sentence...
...notices appended to the time-table was that "Passengers were not allowed to stand on the platform or put their heads out of the window below Debauch Slough--the corporation not wishing to alarm persons who were not patrons of the road...
...quite a bit older while she is trying to keep from the inquisitive people she meets the fact of her sex. The subject admits of any number of subtleties most of which are driven home with that quiet nicety of steam riveters working opposite your window early in the morning...