Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as he moved on to touch the next thing. The clean-up staff was thoroughly decent about the situation, however, and no less friendly than the G.M. lawyers who undoubtedly waited in the wings to take care of sonny if he caught his hand in a Buick door...
...every spring since 1951, and as it did in the only year of its existence before that, 1940. Early or late Sunday morning, depending on when he sets up, every freshman living in the Yard will find the seventeenth issue of the mimeographed Yardling has been tossed at his door the night before. But for the rest of the year '58 will have to depend on extra-Yard sources for news, because the freshman newspaper's five-man board of editors, bowing to final exams, lack of personnel, and tradition, will publish no more...
...price I wanted from one side, I could always sell out to the other side. In fact, just the threat of doing so usually secured immediate payment." After such free-lance blackmail, he was spotted as a comer by big crime's talent scouts. Behind a steel-plated door in the rear of his toney haberdashery, Racketeer Mickey Cohen began to peel off $100 bills and to the bemused gaze of Wiretapper Vaus, the long green "became a diamond ring for Alice, chromium accessories for my car, a new tailor-made suit, a hand-painted tie . . ." But the highlight...
...respiration (CO2 given off) is masked by the effect of photosynthesis (CO2 absorbed). The difficulty of measuring the daytime respiration rate is called "Rabinowitch's nightmare."* For years it haunted biologists, who compared it to the problem of finding out if the refrigerator light is shining after the door is closed. Last week Dr. John Decker of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced that he has punched a hole in Rabinowitch's problem. He enclosed one leaf of a tobacco plant in a glass chamber fitted with sensitive instruments for measuring CO2 in the air. The amount...
...boasted-at the Albany meeting last year that he had voted 100,000 shares in favor of it. Now that he is in control, he has proposed that the shareholders reject cumulative voting just to make sure that those he has ousted cannot get a foot back in the door. The adoption of cumulative voting now, said Young, "might invite some of the previous directorate and management, or their numerous and powerful allies, to seek reinstatement with no other purpose than to keep us from achieving our goals." For President Alfred E. Perlman, who has turned in a handsome performance...