Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kindly gentle enough looking man who will spring up at once when you enter, or even come to the door for you, and who will offer you a chair as though there were nothing better to do than to bask in the afternoon sunlight which is streaming in the window, or warm the hands before a fire burning in the grate. After you have stopped admiring the bright yellow oriental rug on the floor, you will probably become aware that the Dean is talking to you, asking you questions, and putting the problem fairly up to yourself...
Died. Alan Francis Winslow, 37, one-handed assistant chief of Pan American Airways' foreign department, first U.S. aviator to bring down a German plane in the War; when he fell from a third-floor hotel window; in Ottawa...
...room in the apartment is a shrine. Its stained glass window shows the angelic likeness of a fair young woman dead now about two years. As the bride of Captain Hermann Wilhelm Göring she lived barely a year, failed tt) see his triumphal emergence this spring as Premier of Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) and the wild, popular acclaim which marks him wherever he goes throughout the Fatherland today as the No. 2 Nazi...
...night attacks the sirens promptly put out every light in Tokyo. The enemy buzzed over a perfectly darkened city, pricked only by purple or red-hooded automobile headlights and red flashlights at important traffic centres. Sato leaned out his dark window, listened in vain for the noise of airplane engines, felt that something big was going...
...tons per cubic mile, compared to 1.21 tons in July 1932, 1.38 tons in July 1931, 3.82 tons in July 1930. Many a shrewd commuter has privately maintained that he got his best check on current business conditions by counting smoking v. smokeless factory chimneys from his train window...