Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cubberley lives comfortably on his pension and savings from his salary, next door to a well-known Stanford alumnus who also retired from his job in 1933, Herbert Clark Hoover...
Roaring out of a House dining hall yesterday morning in one of those frenzies induced by a coming hour exam, a rollicking Senior just for the hell of it bawled over his shoulder to the nearby hostess as he went out the door: "Send an order of griddle cakes over to the House Library for me. I'll be hungry a little later...
...line with Weaver's findings-though in some cases ''discovered" independently by other manufacturers using more prosaic methods-are such changes on GM's new cars as lower centre of gravity, improved visibility, partial elimination of running boards, gear shift lever on steering post, door locks on both front doors in some models, locks on ventipanes. Most 1939 cars have the headlights submerged in the fenders; GM's still have their lights mounted independently. Other Weaver conclusions about the public...
Other new wrinkles include rotary door latches that catch without slamming; increased visibility through bigger windshield area; sliding sunshine panels in sedan tops; "catwalk-cooling" grilles low-set on the catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...
What really makes me mad is that in Widener Library, where the catalog says that "all men are equal before the knowledge of the ages," there is a door plainly marked FIRE HOSE FOR OFFICERS ONLY. This burns us Freshmen up. Norman E. Furbrush...