Word: windowful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...midmorning they stood outside the Curtis house intently watching a second-story window shade. The doctor had promised to raise it as a signal of the end. Everything was very still. A Negro boy was exercising polo ponies nearby. The air was sweet with spring. . . . Up, slowly up went the shade...
...taking motion pictures through a quartz window in a gasoline motor's combustion chamber and by registering the 1 pressure changes, Lloyd Withrow and T. A. Boyd of General Motors were able to tell the American Chemical Society at Indianapolis last week exactly why motors knock. Quality of gasoline is the cause. With good fuel a pencil of flame darts from the spark plug and ignites all the charge progressively. This occurs in 1/250 sec. With knocking gasoline, the instant the spark starts ignition, the first burned fuel creates sufficient heat and pressure to ignite all the remaining fuel...
...child was already dead. Two more died presently. Their bodies slid down to the lurched rear of the bus. The rest grew hysterical, broke a window. Bryan Untiedt kept them awake, gave them all his clothing but his shirt and overalls...
...serious dark-eyed boy was taking examinations for the Ecole Polytechnique, government military school at Paris. The professor of French composition, trembling with emotion, scrawled on the blackboard: "Develop this thought of Kléber's:? 'It is essential that the young train their faculties.' " Through the open window Student Ferdinand Foch heard the distant booming of Prussian cannon. He never forgot that afternoon...
...room of a "Mythical Kingdom's" criminal courts building. Eight reporters are gathered to report the execution of a murderer. Hildy Johnson, the reporter who wants to quit his job, is just leaving when the murderer escapes from jail and makes his way into the press room through a window. Overcome by the opportunity for a scoop, Hildy Johnson hides the murderer in a rolltop desk, stays to write the story.? Finally the murderer is reprieved, Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien) entrains with his girl (Mary Brian...