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...results of these investigations encourage the belief that there are now available materials for glazing our windows which do not possess the fault of window glass in excluding the health-giving rays of sunlight. A comparatively small amount of exposure to sunlight, even during the winter months, at the latitude of Boston has a decidedly beneficial effect...
...Corning Glass and the clear Vita Glass are as transparent to the visible rays as is window glass. Vita Glass is furnished also in a translucent ("cathedral") form which is particularly suitable where privacy is desired. Cel-O-Glass and Flex-O-Glass are not transparent, but the data presented show their comparative value for use in solariums and for animal husbandry in cases in which transparency is not essential. Both of these substances are less expensive than ordinary window glass, but the Flex-O-Glass does not withstand the onslaught of the weather as well as does...
...afternoon last week John Webb, 19, of Anniston, Ala., crossed Times Square, Manhattan, surrounded by a crowd of tittering street dolls and foyer sheiks. He entered a Childs' restaurant nearby, sat down, ordered a meal. The crowd persisted in peering at him through the window; some of them entered the restaurant and ordered a glass of milk or a cracker in order to sit near him; waitresses in the restaurant whispered behind their hands...
...Manhattan, Isidor Garfunkel cut off his daughter Sophie from his $10,000 estate with $50, because, his will stated, she had once refused to close a window for him; had once refused to make coffee...
...lucre of the "street." It even gets into his blood. He says so himself. The next thing the audience knows, old John H.'s son is discovered hotly engaged in monkey business, for which tactics he is expelled from the Stock Exchange. He jumps out of an office window so high in the empyrean that he must have been antique when he reached the sidewalk. Thus, only sorrow dogs the successful manipulator. As for the unsuccessful, their troubles are indicated by frequent mention of "bucket shops." The play itself suffers from diffusion and repetition, though, like the stock market...