Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone and onetime Governor General of the Union of South Africa, added to the gaiety of the annual Lorfdon Antique Dealers' Fair by remarking publicly of his popular wife Princess Alice: "I always have the greatest difficulty in getting her away from the window of an art dealer's shop. She remains there with her nose glued to the glass rather like a child looking into a tuck shop." ¶To the surprise of Welshmen, the dragon passant, emblematic beast of Wales, was seen to have vanished last week along with the three...
Miners' wives clutched their children by the hand, jeered "Scab!" at any neighboring moppets who ventured to class. One zealous unionist smashed a schoolroom window with a brick. Another threatened to horsewhip a teacher. Now thoroughly agitated, the Teachers' Association met at Jasper Courthouse, unanimously agreed to keep clear of the A. F. of L., assured Superintendent Scott that no teachers were on strike. Whereupon Superintendent Scott appealed to Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves to get the students back to school...
...started down. Near exhaustion from the height, he began getting dizzy as the plane dived toward normal air, suddenly realized that not enough oxygen was flowing into his air-tight suit, that he was about to suffocate. Frantically he tried to open the zipper of his suit and the window of his plane. Failing, he used the last remnant of his strength to snatch a knife from the wall, slit open his helmet, gulp the air that rushed...
...Fast moving paper belts brush against an overhead metallic container which accumulates huge charges of electricity. In the Trump modification this electricity is poured into a tremendous x-ray tube which projects downward through the floor into the room below. At the nether end of the tube is a window of gold from which the 1,000,000-volt rays stream. The patient is simply placed beneath the stream when he requires treatment...
...bean processing plant. Into Ford cars at present go the product of some 60,000 acres of soybeans. The oil goes into glycerine for shock-absorbers, enamel for body finishes, binder for foundry cores. The meal, turned into plastics, rolls off the assembly line as horn buttons, gearshift knobs, window-trims, distributor cases...