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Word: windowful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transport plane swooped down into the Nashville, Tenn., Airport and rolled to a stop. A crowd gathered round it, crying for Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. & bride to step out. Called one: "See, there he is in the window!" Called another: "He's got a smile just like his father's." Called a third: "He's heard us and is going to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 27, 1937 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Highway 71 begins in Kansas City, ends at Baton Rouge, La. It passes through northwest Arkansas en route and serves the town of Rogers (pop. 3,500). From a drugstore window there, 35-year-old Clerk Cloe Mitchell often ruminated on the volume, speed and danger of passing traffic. Not long ago Cloe Mitchell decided to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rogers' Reaper | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

During the school year, the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants, with typing jobs, entertainment positions, chore work, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffeur posts, delivery work, and window washing, following in order. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modelling for artists, or directing traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 Students Cut Summer Vacations To Apply for All Kinds of Odd Jobs | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

Whether this incident represented a minor revolt of his rubber stamp legislature or whether dictatorial little President Quezon had quietly arranged it as a window dressing to prove to visiting U. S. officials that parliamentary government functions in the Philippines, it was only one of several matters which kept him busy last week. For while all was apparently peaceful along the Pasig-the muddy little stream that flows through Manila-Manuel Quezon was busily heating several political irons in the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Peace on the Pasig | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...self-respect. Dr. Jones, 74, is tall, pink-cheeked, white-crested, talks with the crisp accent of his native South China, Me.,, of whose Yearly Meeting he is still a member. He still lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which he once played and which remains a major one at the college. Quaker Jones held to his pacifist principles through the World War, helped organize the Service Committee afterward to mop up wherever possible in its wake. Good-humored, he is fond of telling stories about his Quakerism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends in Philadelphia | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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