Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a fight. At 65, he is a friendly, outspoken six-footer with a rugged frame and electric blue-grey eyes that make him look 20 years younger. Since he moved to the Executive Mansion, he has become a familiar sight on Harrisburg streets-window-shopping, chatting with the local newsstand dealer, gassing with the cop on the corner...
Orator Fosdick, no scientist himself, tried hard to be optimistic: ". . . This telescope can furnish our stricken society with some measure of healing perspective. This great new window to the stars will bring . . . into fresh focus the mystery of the universe, its order, its beauty, its power. ... Adrift in a cosmos whose shores he cannot even imagine, man spends his energies in fighting with his fellow man over issues which a single look through this telescope would show to be utterly inconsequential...
...doctors knew more about what goes on inside a man's head, they might be able to do more about diseases. But they have never had a window-in-the-head to match the window-in-the-stomach that one Alexis St. Martin once gave them.* Last week, after four years' experimenting, University of Pennsylvania Physiologist Seymour S. Kety, 32, thought he had the next best thing: a way of testing the brain's blood as it comes & goes...
Blood is set in the foothill country of the French Alps, where Author Stein and Companion Alice B. Toklas used to spend their summers. Many characters wander into the book and as casually wander out, never to be heard from again. Did the victim fall from a window on to the stone courtyard-or was she pushed? Perhaps "the horticulturist" knows. He sounds like a possible clue: "And now to tell and to tell very well very very well how the horticulturist family lived to tell everything, and they live in spite of everything, they live to tell everything...
...defeat of Cornell last week by Navy also throws certain previous conceptions far out the window. Washington and Cornell had seemed the only boats that might really stand a chance to dump the Crimson in the trials; now Navy, which finished a comfortable distance in arrears at the Regatta on May 8, looks like a tough opponent...