Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that tank blocked the way of the other nine they, too, were forced to halt. Two of us were in the last tank. We saw men climb out of the others to be shot in short order. We remained inside and when the Ethiopians came they opened the door which we had forgotten to lock. We called out 'Friends' and we were not injured...
...back a packet of opium sealed with the official 'chop' of the Kuominchun tax-collecting bureau, and reported that a new method of dealing with houses of prostitution had been devised. They were compelled to display a Christian text in Chinese on each side of the door. The fee for each board was five dollars. And the texts had to be changed every month...
Came out by the same Door as in I went...
Explosives. Extremely dangerous are the dynamite-caps or detonators used for blasting in mines. Last year a Baltimore woman, opening the door of a furnace, was struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass...
...citizen, to the University of Chicago. The task was entrusted to the Business School, which, properly impressed by Peabody with the value of these records, promptly insured the whole lot for considerably in excess of $25,000. In turn, properly impressed, the Railway Express Company appeared at Peabody's door and loaded the records in an armored car manned with several beholstered guards...