Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulkhead door between control and after-battery rooms stood Electrician's Mate Lloyd Maness, whom his shipmates called "a swell little guy." As the Squalus sank Maness tugged at the heavy door, which, because of the ship's angle, had to be swung uphill. His job was to shut that door. He had it almost closed when voices from the rapidly filling battery room screamed: "Keep it open! Keep it open!" Maness let the door fall back, counted five men who struggled through. Then as the water rushed toward the door, he swung it shut, clamped down...
...telephone. Four hours later the trapped men heard the engines of the Squalus' sister ship, Sculpin. Through the telephone buoy Lieutenant Naquin reported to the Sculpin what had happened before the line snapped. Nothing more could be done. Somebody mentioned the 26 men trapped behind the bulkhead door. The commander shut him up. The sea, icy cold at 240 feet, sucked all the heat out of the ship; the sweating hull gave off moisture that intensified the cold. The air in the ship would last for perhaps 48 hours...
...great western fortifications. In the midst of spring fervor, Nazi health authorities publicized an unbelievable figure: 75% of all young men between 20 and 29, they said, proved, when examined for military purposes, jobs, or party membership, to be suffering from syphilis-a declaration that opened the door to lurid descriptions in Nazi papers, agitation that all healthy citizens be made to carry passes certifying their freedom from the disease. But throughout Europe, though Italians feared late rains would cause wheat crop rust and Belgians that late fro.st would damage their potatoes, news turned on word of health rather than...
Winnipeg. Despite a drizzling rain, the Queen ordered the top of their automobile lowered, smiled bravely though wetly during the 26-mile drive through Canada's wheat city. Dignitaries were warned against too hearty handshaking, for the King had pinched two fingers in a train door. It was Queen Victoria's Birthday-Empire Day-and the King, after listening to professions of loyalty broadcast from every colony and Dominion of the Empire, replied with his best speech of the trip...
Harvard Man: "Who knocked on my door just...