Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have become a ghost. Recently in Hollywood when some children ran to open the door of my car they greeted me as Betty Boop. Betty is just one stroke removed from Mickey Mouse...
...glass tube containing the radioactive gas radon. Alpha particles from the radon knocked neutrons out of the beryllium. First hurdle was a metal ring which deflected part of the neutron beam toward a cylindrical detection chamber less than an inch across, a half-inch deep. The chamber's door was guarded by a paraffin screen from which the neutrons evicted protons. Having positive charges, the protons ripped through the chamber, freeing ions which were collected on an insulated electrode so that their flow could be amplified, detected, measured...
...Islam was making corresponding gains. Alarmed teachers complained to the city attorney. Detroit's truant officers called at the University of Islam, housed on the second floor of an old brick theatre building, ten blocks east of the city's downtown business district, and had the door shut in their faces. They went back with police, but the school's instructors were clam-mouthed. All the visitors saw were some 40 little blackamoors marching in military formation...
...though not a vociferous exponent of it, he nevertheless is sufficiently human to smile upon the adage of not "letting one's studies interfere with one's education." An accomplished story-teller, he has an inexhaustible fund, featuring prominently the one about Mr. Lowell and the fire-door, a worthy tale, and one well worth the hearing...
...bolted together, and set to running with its familiar squeaks and rattles. The man from Mars reading our papers will judge, rightly, that the most popularly important aspect of an affair of wholesale murder and robbery is the fact that pretty Norma bumped her knee on a cell door...