Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school in The Bronx, a cluster of Puerto Rican teenagers, members of the Royal Knights street gang, waited for their victim. When school let out. the hoodlums swarmed around John Guzman, member of the enemy Valiant Crowns gang, and started shoving and punching him. Guzman fled back toward the door of the school building. Royal Knight Edward Peres, 16, drew out a shortened. .22-cal. rifle and shot him in the chest...
Subscription rates for Cambridge's only breakfast daily are $9.50, if paid before Oct. 20, and $10.00 if paid after that date. The newspaper is delivered Monday through Saturday to your door, whether in dormitories or in Cambridge residences...
Thirty-five years ago, when Sheldon Gluecks suggested to his professor at the GSAS that an evaluation be made of the peno-corrective system used in this country, he had no idea that he was opening the door on an area of research that would become a lifetime career for him and his wife, Eleanor. His instructor seized upon the suggestion, secured $3,500 for research, and in 1925, the Gluecks began an unprecedented search into the facts and fallacies of the peno-corrective system of the United States...
Some chaps insist on speaking English before 10 o'clock coffee; for them there is still much to do. Philhellenics (there are many) can meet at Harvard 1 to hear Professor Wade-Gery's views on the Greek Renaissance and Archaic Greek, History 106. And next door in Harvard 3, Professor Pipes pre-dates the "We will bury you" era with History 155, Russia to the end of the Eighteenth Century...
Sebastian Knight, a novelist, has fallen through the last trap door, death. His half brother, the nameless first-person narrator of the novel, feels the loss like a psychic amputation. It is as if a great secret had been buried with Sebastian, perhaps the meaning of life itself. The half brother determines to ferret out the secret by reconstructing Sebastian Knight's life in a biography. His quest takes him to a college chum of Sebastian's at Cambridge who recalls a miserable emigre trying desperately to be more pukka than the sahibs. (Nabokov graduated from Cambridge...