Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter words of one justice, "no longer any divorce law in the U.S." In one wage-hour ruling-that workers must be paid for time spent getting ready to work and walking through the plant to their jobs ("regardless of contrary custom or contract")-they had opened a trap door under thousands of business firms. Congress had to rush to the rescue with legislation...
...were instructed to draft an Austrian treaty and submit it to their bosses no later than Sept. i. During the next U.N. Assembly session in New York in September, the Big Four would try to arrange for another Foreign Ministers' meeting. This was what diplomats call "keeping the door open...
...Behind a door marked "No Visitors" (no one may enter who has not been properly immunized), works attractive Dr. Alice Moore, a leading virus fancier. "I'm a virus girl," she says, "so I thought I'd ry 'em." She tried influenza virus on can-:erous mice. No effect. She tried the virus of herpes (inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes). No effect...
...perhaps boys who have done their travelling courtesy of the U. S. Army are ready to settle down to being staid. But nevertheless, it strikes us as a step which deserves some consideration. Be careful, graduates, for you are in the shadow of a catastrophe. Let not the door close on you too easily, lest your A.B. be brought to nothing...
Test Case. In Renton, Wash., explaining that he did not want to knock at a neighbor's door to see if his brother and sister were inside, Roy M. Redfield, 18, admitted setting fire to the barn "so I could tell when everyone...