Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passing Yard cops, and its decadent fixtures inspired residents to make their own electrical gadgets. This temporary surge of spirit caused the only recorded use of fire ropes in University history; a proctor locked himself in his room and after hours of fruitless effort, he turned from the door and slid down from his window...
...Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us propped awkwardly on his chest, covering a .22-cal. bullet hole. On a bed beside him was the barefoot body of his wife, her face cruelly beaten and a deep knife wound in her back. The murderer had locked the door behind him with a padlock. Working on the theory that the murders might have been a crime of passion, police began looking for the ex-convict who had rented the room...
...distance of two feet, it reduces to one-quarter the loudness of deep-toned noise. The effect is like shutting a door against the noise. Closer to the microphone, the silencing effect is much stronger. Olson believes that a sound killer could be built that would use only one watt of current. It would be small enough to hang over the head of a sleeper to protect him from sleep-destroying noises. Another use: making conversation easy in an airplane. The deep roar of the engines would be reduced, while the higher tones of the human voice would...
Last year Nordhoff's 20,000 employees turned out 180,000 buglike Volkswagens at the rate of one every 80 seconds, sent them beetling into the markets of 83 foreign countries. The two-door, four-passenger Volkswagen (sedan, convertible and sun roof), powered by a four-cylinder (30-h.p.), air-cooled engine in the rear, has been a fast seller in almost every market it has invaded.* Peppy (top speed: 68) and economical (32 miles to the U.S. gallon), the Volkswagen has become the postwar model T. It outsells all other cars in five European nations...
...Fine Line. In Dallas, charged with rifling the safe of the Farmers' Meat Market, Reggie Stewart explained to detectives why he had carefully padlocked the front door before leaving: "I didn't want some thief to come along and steal all the man's meat...