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Word: windowful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protests from eight irate inhabitants of 20 Walker st. greeted workmen yesterday morning when they arrived to erect 28-inch-high window steps in each of the four third floor bedrooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Floor Girls Shun Steps, Rope As Fire Escapes | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

...eight residents of the third floor felt that these steps would not help escape in an actual emergency. "Our problem is not getting up to the window but getting through the darn thing," said Yvonne Laird...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Floor Girls Shun Steps, Rope As Fire Escapes | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

...girls compared the size of the window opening to that of a single newspaper page, with the window ledge approximately four feet from the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Floor Girls Shun Steps, Rope As Fire Escapes | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

...sailing team's two-year control of the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association's star championship went out the window Sunday when Cornell, Yale and Coast Guard all defeated Hilary Smart, Crimson representative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Lose | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...Atlanta police department ordered department stores to draw their show-window shades when putting new costumes on dress dummies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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