Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drive, headed by Jay L. Fialkow '48, will include the law and business schools and Radcliffe, Door-to-door canvassing is also being considered...
Soon one of Gandhi's disciples appeared at the door to Birla House, to speak to the crowd. "Bapuji [little father] is finished," he said. Just 28 minutes after he was shot, Gandhi had died...
...across Canada, housewives girded themselves for a war on high prices. They went from door to door, getting signatures by the thousands on petitions to the government for more drastic controls. There was talk of a "prices train" which would start from the West, pick up delegates along the way, and roll into Ottawa with a mighty force of embattled consumers...
...mirror could not be hurried. The mirror had to be a paraboloid (a slightly deeper curve than a hollow sphere), accurate to two-millionths of an inch. Each grinding and polishing was done with fanatical watchfulness. Visitors were asked to remove their shoes, like pious worshipers at the door of a mosque; a single grain of tracked-in sand might scratch up the glass and spoil months of work...
...signs remain of the old days of Castle Corners. The grandfather clock in the main hall still reminds one that the President's office next door was once a drawing room. The white-painted rooms are broad and still luxurious, and the landings of the stair case command a fine view of the Yard that used to be a henyard. But Fay House is a house with a present as well as a past. The sign on the third floor has a commanding message for today's Radcliffe girl. In soliciting funds for the College's 70th anniversary, it says...