Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropped in the event of short circuits. Worst consequence: patient could be left suspended if power failed altogether, but Inventor Miller says that even then the patient would still be reasonably comfortable. When something goes wrong, a red light flashes and a bell rings on the front door of the house, summoning aid. Probable cost of the soon-to-be-marketed Auto-Nurse...
...visitors who have received a less than hearty welcome were Junketers Cohn & Schine, who showed up in 1953 on a tour for the late Senator McCarthy, to sniff the stacks for anti-Americanism. Politely, Director Dr. Ian Forbes Fraser explained that his library was private, showed the pair the door. On Fraser's shelves are volumes to turn any McCarthyite red. When the State Department nervously banned the fictional biography Citizen Tom Paine, by the then Redolent Howard Fast, from its overseas informational libraries, Fraser ordered six extra copies to handle the requests of curious Frenchmen. Summarizes Librarian Harry...
...Syracuse, crag-faced Carmen Basilio, 30, the graduate onion farmer who is now welterweight champion, saw no point in waiting for the crowd. He had no time for small talk, either. Over the door of the dingy Main Street Gym where he plugs away at his own grim routine of training, a cardboard sign warns the curious that visitors are unwelcome. The only fight that Carmen is worrying about is the fight with Robinson; the only strategy he is planning is to wade in punching. Each in his own way, the welterweight brawler and the big-talking middleweight boxer...
King took the advice. He bought more land and protected it with a private army of pistol-slinging cowboys. At the back door of the Confederacy, he also spent much of his time buying cotton and running it past Union lines to be sold to Confederate quartermasters. King, his ranch, and his growing fortune safely weathered...
When it opened its doors in 1909, the Boston Opera House boasted that it had the most spacious stage, the handsomest appointments, the most advanced stage machinery in the business. The curtain rose on a magnificent performance of Ponchielli's La Gioconda. "In the future," said one visiting New York critic, "Bostonians will no longer come to New York for opera; instead, New Yorkers will be coming to Boston." But Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, then staging grand opera at his Manhattan Opera House in successful competition with the Metropolitan, made another kind of prophecy. He noted that the hulking...