Word: windows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic about two small apartment buildings in Zurich. At the Harvard exhibition, visitors were impressed most by the variety and ingenuity of Architect Breuer's projects. They range from a great "Garden City of the Future" to chairs made of plywood. They include his multiplying glass window-a group of small round windows, each curved like a camera lens, so that the same scene appears in a different focus, or from a different angle, in each panel. Associated with Gropius in designing houses as well as in teaching. Breuer is considered the more imaginative and intuitive...
...know. I once asked Mr. Roosevelt himself. He just turned and looked out the window as if he hadn't seen...
...these acts a stunned Arab population retaliated, in kind. From the window of a passing train a bomb was thrown into a Jewish crowd at Tel Aviv. Arab warriors fought with British soldiers on the Palestine frontier where 13 Arabs were killed. Near Tel Aviv two Jewish boy hikers were stabbed. Casualties in ten days of terrorism mounted to: Arabs, 45 killed, 145 wounded; Jews, 23 killed, 81 wounded...
...ordinary workmen, Hollywood screenwriters compare in rarity and price as a window full of diamonds compares to a coal bin: only about 350 screenwriters function at any time; their wages are $150 to $5,000 a week. But they enjoy labor troubles in proportion to their pay. The National Labor Relations Board last week had to hold an election to find out which of two major screenwriting labor organizations, that for two years had bickered with each other, shall henceforth undertake the eternal bickering that goes on between screenwriters and producers...
...Manhattan to look for a job. Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went to see McKitterick, asked for a job as a Melachrino salesman...