Word: windows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Numisguided. In Hermosa Beach, Calif., someone smashed a plate-glass window, stole 1?-a 1909 Lincoln penny worth...
...hard-selling Citizens & Southern National Banks popped out the latest variation, advertised "Instant MONEY-Cash Loans Within 20 Seconds." The C. & S. device is a charge card that enables one to draw immediate cash up to thousands of dollars from any C. & S. teller's window, or to charge consumer goods at 1,000 Georgia stores. At month's end, the cardholder gets a single bill from the bank. Last week C. & S. was busy mailing cards to 100,000 customers, and offering them to all other good credit risks...
...Last year Mutual processed more than 125,000 such claims for an average cost of $1.20 apiece. Says Skutt: "Many in business criticize the Government because it gets into the realm of private enterprise. Then when the Government asks business to take over, they are busy looking out the window...
...live by. Light is the sensuous hero of Sight and Insight: "Velásquez' light is like transparent golden bees swarming the honeyed shadow, while Rogier van der Weyden's is like water over marble . . . even when stealing into Vermeer's darkest interior by a narrow window, light is welcomed as a lover. The far corners whisper hello to light. Instead of humping their backs like angry cats the shadows under the furniture are purring. A lady smooths a tablecloth: light smooths it for her and gently holds her hand upon it, saying, 'This usual busy...
...didn't wait for long. The nodding dilettantes of the 11 o'clock crowd poured in one night and the walls were painted a new and shining yellow, with a bluish trim. Gone were the spattered woodwork and the coffee stains; and there were curtains in the front. The window-sitters looked up from their game of Flarg occasionally, and chuckled unconvincingly...