Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister, Hearst's International Cosmopolitan (circulation: 1,850,000), with an added plug for important Druggist customers like Absorbine, Jr. Fletcher's Castoria, Seiberling's Dry-wear Latex Baby Pants. Only cost to them will be $10 worth of products a month as prizes in a window-display contest. Text is being prepared free by eight leading advertising agencies. "Cooper-ating" editorials will be released each month in 20 Hearst daily newspapers (combined circulation...
...traveled on earth. Last week, after a fortnight of unfavorable weather, Challenger Cobb had his inning. Sitting in the nose of his tear-shaped, front-and-rear-engined Railton† (only half the weight of Thunderbolt}, with his head accommodated in an aluminum cupola with a speak-easy window, Driver Cobb streaked over the measured mile in a little over ten seconds, averaged 350 m.p.h. (for a north and south run), became the new king of speed...
...vacation in Europe, RCA President David Sarnoff compared Europe's dictators to Suicide John Warde, who waited eleven hours on a Manhattan window ledge before leaping to his death (TIME, Aug. 8): "To Europe's ledge-walkers is promised this or that in case they come inside, but it does no good. It is a pity that Europe is not able ... to say: 'All right, go ahead and jump if you want to, but it will...
...which in turn set off the fire alarm and drew three fire engines. Another chimney plunged through the roof of the School of Education. Slate from Wigglesworth Hall's roof whirled across the street, and is blamed for the breaking of the Cambridge Trust Company's large plate glass window...
...flavor. Its principal, Archibald Robinson ("Flick") Hoxton, 63, was born on the campus, the son of an associate principal of the school. Short, brown-and-silver-haired Flick Hoxton, a great Southern school athlete, got his nickname either from his habit of lying in bed and spitting out the window or from his extraordinary quickness of hand. Standing at the blackboard before his class, he used absentmindedly to place five or six pieces of chalk on the back of his hand, toss them in the air and catch them...