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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next afternoon Speaker Garner, snappish and irritable, found a hideaway from newsmen in Representative Warren's office at the Capitol. There he sat behind an open door for four hours, listened by radio to his own nomination. He told news cameramen he felt "too bad" to pose for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Garner Week | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...proposal as a bold and radical attempt to galvanize the conference into action after five months of fumbling. Its reception by the Conference was only lukewarm. But plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if the Conference rejected the U. S. proposal and then adjourned, the U. S. door would be slammed upon all European powers who might come to Washington seeking reduction of their War Debts because of hard times. The President's plan meant no cut in the U. S. Army (138,817 men), already below the "police component" standard based on population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cutting Through the Brush | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...College Board has offices in an old brownstone house near Columbia University. On the door is this warning: ALL BUSINESS WITH CANDIDATES, PARENTS AND TEACHERS IS CONDUCTED BY MAIL. Money or position will not move the Board to release its grades in advance. Every candidate for examinations pays $10, although the actual cost is estimated at $11 per examinee. Last year the Board made some $11,000 selling old examination papers, ended up with a $216 deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Boards | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Columbus, Ohio. Brothers and sisters they call one another- Christianized Jews, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, all sects represented but the Roman Catholic. The sisters out number the brothers. We believe in that blessed hope," the personal, pre-millemal and imminent return of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. At the door of big Columbus Memorial Hall, stacks ol pamphlets: "Shall We Longer Tolerate the Teaching of Evolution?" "The Doom of Democracy." On the platform, speak ers and officers, addressing the brothers & sisters eight times a day. "Ours is a labor of love." We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brothers & Sisters | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Baltimore, Mrs. Annie Aubel, 55, drove a health officer from her door crying "God won't let you in!" Soon came police. While Son Paul Aubel, 30, gabbled "God knows all about this!", they pried, peered, hunted about the house. On a couch they found the body of crippled Son Grant Aubel, 26, and a diary explaining that he died April 4, would arise June 24. Mrs. Aubel and Son Paul said they had given the cripple no food since March 20, "because the Lord told us to starve him to drive out the devils." Gibbered Paul Aubel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ghost | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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