Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generations of Harvard men have wiped the dust from the platform of the New Lecture Hall and from the window recesses of Harvard 6 with their head gear. The venerable Stetson has sheltered many a worried head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...
...wages, builders lose some of their $7,000,000,000, through jurisdictional strikes between trade unions. Thus, many a job has been delayed while plasterers and cement workers argued as to where floors stopped and walls began; while carpenters challenged the right of metal workers to put up metallic window and door frames; while ordinary laborers denied to carpenters the privilege of tearing down their own temporary scaffoldings...
...figures represented are sibyls, emperors, and other figures; when the one remaining window to be set up is installed in about two weeks the set will be complete...
...during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down to the station to watch the Spirit of St. Louis come in from New York, or lean against the window of Bards drug store, waiting for something to happen. He started a poolroom of his own, but found few customers. Moving to St. Louis, he opened another place, with metal tables in it, but the balls made such a noise whamming off the cushions that it got on his nerves...
...house keeper took the pigeons from the cats, and in return for them gave a slice of beef or mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten some maize and drunk water, they flew out of the window none the worse for their handling by the cats. The fact was that neither cat liked to eat game with dirty, sooty feathers on it ; they preferred clean cooked meat." On Jan. 1, 1929, Sir Wallis contributed to the Conservative Evening Standard the obituary of Mike which became the basis...