Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place. Uncle Harry finally seemed to realize that I had been fed up upstairs, and he said that the other publications did not compare, so he hustled me off before I could, finish my doughnut. Across the street he took me upstairs in a building and knocked on a door. A janitor told Uncle Harry that they were all sleeping. "Do you see?" said Uncle Harry. "That's the Advocate." Then he took me up the street and told me we were going into the CRIMSON, an old rival. "We've got to scoop them," was all I could hear...
...bookmaking of the big Eastern publishers in this economical day. The publishers' complete list inside the jacket is not impressive; but if they keep up the literary and crafts, manship standards of this book, there is no reason why men should not beat a path to their Caldwell, Idaho, door...
...door banged. Alfred Haine who runs a little inn in the village of Marche-les-Dames looked up just at dinner time to see a man in tweeds, very pale, very breathless, but despite his nervousness, very polite...
...trapper's illness. With his temperature rising and falling it seemed as if he had typhoid. Yet there were no other typhoid symptoms. Dr. Nickerson called in Dr. Coombs from Augusta and Dr. Donovan from Houlton. They had a look at the patient, nodded gravely. Outside his hospital door they admitted that they too had never before seen anything like it. The three adjourned to Dr. Nickerson's office, thumbed through his medical books, returned to the hospital, then back to the books. Finally by a system of trial and error they diagnosed Trapper Macdougall's ailment...
...took over American Woolen. At the age of 18 he was traveling around the country in a big wagon filled with 20 trunks of merchandise. He went to McCall's in 1919, the year its publisher boasted that the "wolf wasn't at McCall's door, it was way inside." Without additional financing and by sheer merchandising ability he doubled sales in four years, pushed them to a peak of $14,000,000 in 1930. But neither he nor President Noah was willing to go into American Woolen on salary alone. They made a deal to collect...