Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the church's oddities: a font made of a broomstick and a bread bowl; a stained-glass window of dust from precious stones; a window offered to another church by Lotta Crabtree, and refused because she was an actress...
...publisher of the Portland Oregonian, ten days ill with grippe, had himself carried to the east bay of his grey stone mansion on Portland's Imperial Heights, to look once more across the city where he had made his fortune. As the late winter sunshine streamed through the window, Henry Lewis Pittock knew that his time was short, knew that his keenest regret was to leave to other hands the great daily he had founded 58 years before. Next night he died, and Portlanders learned that his $7,894,778.33 estate was the largest ever probated in Oregon...
...castle becomes a shambles on which the most effective comment is entirely wordless: when Harpo undertakes to relieve his partner's hunger pangs by bringing in a live turkey he has won at a raffle, the turkey takes one look at its surroundings and flies out of the window...
Like frost traceries upon a window pane, 81,000 miles of pipelines fan out over the U. S. from the nation's three chief natural gas fields: 1) in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky; 2) Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana; 3) Southern California. Last year these capillaries of modern commerce carried so much gas (1,336,863,000,000 cu. ft.) that Congress passed the Natural Gas Act giving the Federal Power Commission authority over interstate pipelines similar to what it already had over interstate transmission of electricity. Last week FPC received from Kansas Pipe Line & Gas Co. the first...
...only going to be gone for a short time, had not bothered to put on any clothes. Although stories varied, Jack Bovis '42 was credited with calling the Cambridge Fire Department, conveniently located around the corner. The local smoke-caters were said to have entered the third story window by means of an extension ladder...