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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Young Republicans will set up headquarters in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Continental after 8 p.m. Beer, a band and two television sets will be available to members who pay 50 cents and others who have contributed $1.25 in advance or $1.50 at the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young Dems, Reps Plan Parties Nov. 6 | 11/2/1956 | See Source »

After his defeat in 1952, Adlai Stevenson discovered that a good number of the nation's idealists, reformers and vocational do-gooders were still willing to beat a path to his door. Most of the grand designs got a polite brushoff. But one that caught Stevenson's eye was a proposal for the U.S. to halt its hydrogen-bomb tests. Over the months, Stevenson studied the proposition, deemed it worthy. Last April he advocated it publicly during his heated campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. After that he became so preoccupied with the subject that his staffers began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The H-Bomb Argument | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Foot by foot the decompression chamber was hoisted toward the surface. Pound by pound its air pressure fell. As it neared the surface, Clucas closed the bottom door to hold the remaining pressure, and the chamber with the two men inside was taken on board the Reclaim. For an hour they breathed pure oxygen to flush residual helium and nitrogen out of their systems. Then the door was opened, and they stepped out. At once they felt the dreaded pains of the bends, Wookey in his shoulders, Clucas in his legs and chest. They ran into a larger decompression chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deepest Diver | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...membership list with that of the HLU and the Students for Stevenson, has been doing much the same canvassing and pre-registration work in Cambridge as the other Democratic clubs. Its membership, now nearly 200, has also contributed to the Holtz campaign in Brighton, Brookline, and Newton. Aside from door-to-door canvassing, some workers participated in an opinion poll of Tenth District voters, to determine what issues Holtz might use to best advantage in his campaign there. The poll, prepared by Dr. Ithiel Pool, an MIT professor, is similar to the one used in California to permit Adlai Stevenson...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Harvard Turns Political | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

...three-day, door-to-door polling reached about half of the precinct's voters and covered every street. This middle-class precinct has mostly small, one-family homes, with a few two-family dwellings. It has a stable population, including many city and state employes. There is a large Irish segment, and many, even Eisenhower supporters, describe themselves as Democrats. It has not been redistricted within the last eight years...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Even Split on Presidency Shown in Key Precinct | 10/25/1956 | See Source »

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