Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door in the rear of Sever 24, which leads to the back stairway and "emergency egress," burst open during class Friday. By the time the class could turn around the door was halfway shut but the diminishing view of two Radcliffe coats could still be seen...
...printed a letter from a midshipman signed "W. T. Door." You may be interested to know that this is a pseudonym, equivalent to the civilian's "John Doe." It is taken from the marking found frequently on ship's doors, meaning "watertight door...
...last week Poormaster Barck was interviewing applicants in his office. He had been attacked so often that Patrolman Louis Carmody stood on guard outside his door. The officer had just been asked to arrest Mrs. Lena Fusco for spitting in Mr. Barck's face when into the office shuffled small Joseph Scutellaro, 36, an unemployed carpenter. Carpenter Scutellaro had received $5.70 for his wife and two babies since he applied for Relief in December...
Soon from behind the closed office door came angry voices, Harry Barck's shout: "That's all there is to it. Next!" But the door did not open. When an assistant and Patrolman Carmody opened it, they found Harry Barck clutching his chest, his last client standing white-faced near the wall. Ironical was the fact that during the interview a postman had delivered an $8 relief check at Joseph Scutellaro's house, more ironical, the weapon with which Joseph Scutellaro, by his own confession, had dealt a mortal wound: the long spike on which Poormaster Barck...
...register with the commission. Though the constitutionality of the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act is still undecided by the Supreme Court, fortnight ago the $570,000,000 United Light & Power Co. voluntarily registered under the act. Last week two more utility holding companies knocked at SEC's door -Engineers Public Service Co., which registered all $369,000,000 of its assets, and Cities Service Co., which asked for exemption for itself but registered the $428,000,000 assets of its two utility subsidiaries, Cities Service Power & Light Co. and Federal Light & Traction Co. This brought the total...