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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expensive" Blamire said. "Fire inspection rules require steel fire doors, and we'd have to plaster the basement ceiling." As estimated, one fire door would cost about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 Walker's Smoker Meets Annex Veto | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

...years, stirred up a cake to celebrate. When the bakers got it just right, it stood eight feet high, carried 1,500 roses, weighed just over a long ton. Galyan beamed, cut it up into 17,000 pieces for his customers, threw in a $2,800 Frazer as a door prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

This week, on the morning after U.N.'s third anniversary, Vishinsky informed Bramuglia that he had a "counter-proposal." Bramuglia hastily called the principals into his suite at the plush Hotel George V, locked the door, and turned the night latch. But the Russian "counterproposal" was no secret. It was the same old story: Russia wanted its currency introduced first-then it promised to lift the blockade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Lesson for Juan | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...engagement rings through being engaged before, and his old love plays a rather comic-strip role in the new play. Life With Mother also gains in interest rather than value through Cousin Cora's marriage and Clarence Jr.'s short-lived engagement to the girl next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Navy's new two-place jet fighter, the Douglas XF3D-1 Skyknight, has a special "escape chute" to help its crew bail out. When the pilot decides to abandon ship, he pulls a toggle. The seatbacks swing away. A door at the rear of the cockpit opens, exposing a passage sloping down and back toward the belly of the plane. At the end is a second door with two leaves. The rear leaf flies off into space. The forward leaf is pushed out hydraulically to form a windscreen. When escaping crewmen slide down the chute, the screen softens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Way Out | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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