Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Learning arrived that same year in the person of a Mr. Nathaniel Eaton. To the Goffe's, who lived next door, the new neighbors must have seemed a curious lot. The Professor, as they called him, showed himself to be no mean handy man around the house; one of his first acts was to enclose his lot with a six-and-a-half-foot timber paling...
...closed-door session, the board of trustees of Princeton's genius-crammed Institute for Advanced Study unanimously re-elected Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer as the institute's director. Among the trustees: Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, which three months ago revoked Oppenheimer's security clearance for access to Government secrets...
Nothing Sacred. Be it ever so rough and tumble, Marlon's home is his castle. He seldom answers the phone before it rings 20 times, often lets invited guests batter wearily at the door for long periods before he casually lets them...
...plant. Amid the Gatling-gun racket of automatic nailing machines day last week, National's House No. 66,657 took shape at Lafayette. A wall swung down one assembly line, while ceilings, floors and roof were assembled on others. At one location, a machine cut and shaped a door and drilled all the holes for hardware in ten seconds; machines automatically sprayed a first coat of paint onto small pieces of wood, then other machines sanded them down for a second coat. In exactly one hour, House No. 66,657 was ready to be loaded aboard a waiting trailer...
...talk to him, he will apologize for his rolled-up shirt sleeves and be most glad to discuss anything but himself through a smile at the corners of his mouth. His appointment to follow Hooton, he says, is the accomplishment of which he is proudest. And while the door of Room 56 in the Peabody Museum still has the late professor's name painted on the glass, a member of the anthropology faculty points out, "Howells is the one unique person who could have stepped in here...