Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived on $158 monthly relief. Often truant from school, he was never truculent, simply baffled. His I.Q. score: a very low 69. He stayed four terms in the same class, but his teachers never considered him a disciplinary problem. A neighbor said that he was considerate: "The woman next door has a baby, and Frank would take the carriage in for her without being asked." He went three nights a week to a nearby Police Athletic League center, designed to keep boys out of trouble. He liked to box, but he was small...
...DuBridge is still a man who will happily spend an afternoon fixing an ailing sewing machine, and then fly off to Washington for a top-secret meeting of the Science Advisory Committee. He runs his campus much as he did the radiation lab, and nowhere is the open-door policy more faithfully followed. Though his days are filled to capacity, he seems always to have time for the unannounced visitor, the troubled student, or for a session of weighty talk punctuated by friendly jokes. But beyond Caltech and Washington, Lee DuBridge plays another role: that of the dedicated spokesman...
...blame for the national program's weakness plainly must be laid at the Department of Health's door. Senator Morse has reintroduced a bill he first suggested a month ago to set up a federal commission which would allocate and set priorities for vaccine use. More recently, many congressmen of both parties have joined Senator Ives in sponsoring a similar measure. Immediately after the voluntary distribution was announced, over 50 national welfare agencies and labor groups objected, requesting federal appropriations for free distribution of vaccine to low-income children, and federal control over records of inoculations. President Eisenhower himself...
Possibly the last group of Dental School students for some time to come have gained access to the medical profession through the side door of dentistry...
Laurette had begun to drink and went into such rages that her daughter barricaded her door at night. From Laurette's room would come noises, "sounds which seemed to come from hell and under...