Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike George Herbert Palmer who, locked in Appleton Chapel, attracted the attention of a yard cop from a high up circular window, the Vagabond settled down to enjoy himself. The arrangement of some of the books took his fancy. The Harvard University Publications, he found, were placed, appropriately enough, next to books on Games and Sports; while War Songs next to Individual and Individualistic Composers made him suspect that the world of music was not without its skirmishes. He discovered Manchuria defended only by Thibet, between China and Japan...
...long the citizens of Montreal walked delicately as Agag, never knowing what lay beneath their feet. For the violence of the explosions, injuries were surprisingly slight. No one was killed, only 20 injured. In twelve city blocks not a whole window pane remained. Heat from flaming sewers was unbearable. One three-story house was blown to bits. Three of the inmates were blown clear into the street, four more were dug out of the cellar...
...York Stock Exchange and the little grey banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co., is Continental Bank & Trust Co. of New York. One busy day last week a bold thief strolled into Continental Bank and purloined $500,000 in Government bonds from behind a teller's window. Police and bank officials advanced the startling theory that the thief had fished the bonds out through the grating while the teller was not looking, using a stick with chewing...
...plenty, but I manage to breathe by occasionally going to the window...
...Well, the firemen have just put a ladder to my window. I'm glad to know it's there in case I need...