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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dubuque Street, where she works for her board three hours an evening as cashier. Then she drove six miles across the prairie to her school in Scott Township. It is a square, white frame building between a pasture and ; field of yellow corn stubble. Miss Campbell unlocked the door, lit a fire in the big Waterbury stove in the corner. Soon, trudging up the road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards, two Hotzes, Lorraine Stockman, Frances Mc-Namer, Bertilla Loventinsky and Doris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...British opened China to Western trade by force," he said. "We profited by their use of force. Our open door policy is essentially the British policy. Now that the French and British are unable to do much in China, we will have to implement by force the open door policy, or we will have to abandon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japanese Apt to Drive Americans Out Of China While War Diverts British | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

...reputation for sharpness grew; his well-placed friends multiplied; names accumulated on the office door. After 1920 he saw more & more of his old classmate, Martin Manton, by then a Federal Circuit Court judge, became interested in two of Manton's many enterprises. And during the Depression something happened that was to bring the careers of Louis Levy and Martin Manton crashing down together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disbarred | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...island in the Pacific which is smaller than California in area, and no less mountainous, lives a population over half the size of the U. S. people. These unfortunates-the Japanese-are like a rush-hour crowd in a subway car, the doors of which have jammed. Fortnight ago Japanese papers loudly warned that the East Indies ought to be an emergency exit; and that Western Powers had better help open the door. Last week Japan's arms implemented the warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INDIES: Cradle Into Backyard | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...prettiest tunes are drowned out by the heavy artillery of the plot. The show gets good only when the barn theatre is forgotten and some attractive youngsters such as Ingenue Grace McDonald sing and dance. But by then, unfortunately, there's no use locking the barn door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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