Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for punitive reasons decided by the Administrative Board no charge is greater than the standard which is figured on a basis of cost of labor plus cost of material, plus twenty-five percent overhead. Opening a fire door or breaking a window comes under official censure and entails a fine as well ad replacement. The skeptic who views twenty-five percent overhead with wincing eye might be reminded that no professional contractor operates even near this margin nor has he any urge...
...given to drink is no different from the man on the other side of the fire door when he first starts imbibing, Bates said. But once he begins, he withdraws into his social shell, and cannot put down his glass. Unless he is shown how to stop, his habit will grow worse as he gets older...
...Discoveries. The first editorial offices were in the high-ceilinged front parlor of a narrow Victorian house on Cass Street (now North Wabash Avenue). Tiny Editor Monroe sat hidden behind a rolltop desk, bobbing up into view every time the door opened, sinking down again to lose herself in the pile of manuscripts. By 1936, when she died at 75, Miss Monroe had racked up an astonishing record of Poetry firsts: she was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, a satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking...
Speakaluminum. In the National Hardware Show in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, buying pressure was so heavy that one hapless manufacturer of duralumin folding rulers rigged up a booth to resemble a speakeasy, barred the door to all but established customers. Despite this, his orders by the end of the second day amounted to 180,000, enough to keep his plant busy for 45 days...
...Milk Street, in the financial heart of Boston, a sign on an office door reads "President and Fellows of Harvard College." Behind this door, in the neat, conservative office of William H. Claflin, Jr. '15, Treasurer, the University's money is controlled. Today this fortune adds up to almost two hundred million dollars in market value, a figure that does not include a penny's worth of the physical plant. It is the source, not only of that vague concept known as Harvard's greatness, but also of many more specific questions, such as the various rates of tuition throughout...