Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sage of he Age crawled from his straw pallet and struggled towards the Sanctum door as he had for the last 200 years. He rubbed the opiate ashes from his left eyelid, which he opened wide enough to perceive the Canton Trust Company calender dangling on a nail above the door...
...nurses, however, decided it would be better to surprise their friend. They barged across the courtyard, leaving a line of stiff necks behind them. They knocked at Bert's door...
...thought it was a mirage," said Anthony Oettinger '51, Bert's roommate. who opened the door. Immediately he closed it again. The girls walked in. So did a dozen Lowell House spectators. No drinks were served...
...However, it isn't what induced him to take up jalopies as a pastime. He started going to the races during the summer but found it was getting too expensive to pay his way into the track several nights a week; so Dennison picked up a cheap 1940 two-door Ford sedan, three mechanics, a membership in the National Jalopy Racing Association, and became an insured driver instead of a daring spectator...
...That he had designed too-along with all the Studebakers since the war-and thereby helped set a new fashion in automobiles. Loewy's own car had a few special flamboyant frills: a plastic tailfin, a tiny gold grilled air scoop above the emblem on the hood, recessed door handles, porthole windows and other eyecatchers to start pedestrians' tongues awagging with-the name of Studebaker− and Showman Loewy...