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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the second one they locked the door to all but known customers, ordered more than $6,000 worth of bulletproof glass for tellers' windows, armored plate for the cages, time locks on the front door and the safe. The equipment didn't come until after the third robbery. The locked door alone might have prevented the third robbery, except that Director Henry Berens kindly opened the door for a stranger who was waving a $10 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Inviting Crib | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...purge of provincial Communist leaders, particularly in the coal-mining north, where the heresy of "Titoism" has been gaining ground. When Armand Moche, president of the miners' union of the Nord Department, was dismissed, he shouted, "You are leading France to ruin!" and stalked out, slamming the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Treasonable Intentions | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

According to the Cambridge Police Medical Examiner, David C. Dow '27, who signed the certificate, death was caused by "asphixiation." Although no note was found, Dow claimed that Nurick had been depressed. He used a piece of rope stretched from the top of the door leading to his room, which was on the second floor of the house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Student Kills Himself In Apartment | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

Every team except the track squad will open with Southern trips during spring vacations. Jaakko Mikkola's out-door runners have their first meet against Boston College on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Southern Trips Open Spring Sports | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

...address system, were somewhat marred by rival CRIMSON loudspeakers established in adjoining Adams and Lowell rooms. Later, after the members of the newly-formed "State of Lampoon" had retired behind their barbed wire and sawdust sack fortifications, these barricades were breached by a determined charge, which reached the front door of the building and obtained half of the "State of Lampoon" banner before the cessation of hostilities...

Author: By John R.W. Smail, | Title: 'Spring Rioting' by Mob Marks Lampoon's Rally | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

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