Word: windowful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...force of John Connolly and James Reddin that the pursuit began in earnest. The strategy of an enveloping flank movement brought the skunk to bay at 4.30 o'clock at Johnston Gate, and a few minutes later he was making his final stand in the sunken window of Massachusetts Hall...
...recall that the duties of the office, like Bacon's intellect, take all the world of human affairs as their province. The number of embarrassing incidents such as the recent affaire Wigglesworth, in which three Freshmen were caught in the toils of the law for throwing milkbottles out the window, that have been averted by timely and sympathetic proctorial intervention looms large in Freshman annals. Qualities of judgment, tact, and initiative are all prime requisites for the position, and the new list of new men gives promise that the latter will perform their functions creditably...
...perhaps the name of Krupp. The Krupp who despite early discouragements at the hands of his own government, built up the gigantic works at Essen and made his name a synonym for cannon was Alfred--a strange figure who wore wooden sabots when he visited his factory, opened his window once a month, had a bathtub in his parlor, assembled his intimates in his own devising, and carried a steel walking stick. Alfred Krupp began as a humble petitioner of governments, coming hat in hand to ministers, kings, and emperors of assorted nationalities to beg orders for his guns...
...TIME erred last month in stating that the $10,000,000 of government bonds which Van Sweringen Corp. sold to Cleveland's Union Trust Co., allegedly for window-dressing purposes, "were bound by indenture" to stay in the vaults of J. P. Morgan & Co." The bonds were not specifically pledged but were part of a fund which the corporation had undertaken to retain in its treasury in the form of cash or marketable securities until its outstanding notes were reduced to a certain figure. The bonds were merely deposited in the Morgan vaults for safekeeping. Van Sweringen Corp...
...laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...