Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since every German has been warned by his Government to be polite to foreigners, conductors on trains in the Fatherland now bustle anxiously up & down the aisles, asking, "Would you like this window raised? Are you enjoying Germany? Do you know that Adolf Hitler is now our best-educated man because, although he never went to university, he calls our best German professors to lecture to him several times a week?" Italy has slashed her railway and hotel rates so deeply for tourists that they are partial gifts. Last week, with King Edward and the British Prime Minister both canceling...
...Palace officials said that Queen Mary, peeping unobserved from behind a Buckingham window curtain last week, shed tears of motherly joy as 5,000 Canadian War veterans demonstrated in extraordinary fashion their deep affection for her son Edward VIII...
...with its dirt floor. To protect the 70 cows from flies there were electrically-charged copper screens. When a fly tried to get through the ½in. openings, there was a little flash, a ping -and the dead fly fell into a metal trough at the bottom of the window. Each cow had its individual drinking fountain, which spouted water when nuzzled. Cows were cooled by electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they gave was immediately electrically cooled to 40°, electrically...
...write the whole Bible in living colors," works with unceasing self-criticism to see that his craftsmanship is perfect, his meanings clear. With true medieval literalism, Artist Saint likes to use genuine prodigals for his Prodigal Sons, combs missions for repentant sinners when one is needed for a window...
...photographer pushed his camera to the ambulance window for a last snapshot. Henry Morgan's face paled with fury, his hands clenched, but he made no move. A Morgan estate guard hit the photographerin the jaw. The ambulance sped away to the rigid privacy of the Morgan estate...