Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching staff involved in investigations. In general, the Corporation has handled the investigation problem well. It has recognized that the teachers implicated are neither dangerous spies nor maligned heroes, and remembered that certain of the University's principles cannot be lightly overthrown. Yet, it has left the door open for more severe action if ever circumstances warrant...
...lecture hall of the American Philosophical Society, next door to Philadelphia's Independence Hall, a small group of notables gathered last week for a special ceremony. Behind them hung the portrait of the society's founder, Benjamin Franklin, and it was with the memory and works of Franklin that the notables were concerned. Presidents A. Whitney Griswold of Yale and Owen J. Roberts of the American Philosophical Society had come to announce that their two institutions were about to collaborate on one of the major literary ventures of the century - the publication of all the known Franklin papers...
...today. We don't take the News, but my servants do. Would you send the column to me?" Evie takes such jibes in stride. Says she: "My readers are janitors and cab drivers and ambassadors and Cabinet members' wives. What the hell, if I have a back-door public I don't care. As long as people like my own cook read me, I guess I don't have to worry. It's a good business...
...apparent everywhere, from the auto showroom, where a prospective buyer can often spend half an hour without anyone even bothering to take his name, to the smallest counter in a department store. Once upon a time, department-store salesmen used to break into a sprint the minute the elevator door slid open. Now, after more than a decade of mere order-taking and shelf-straightening, many of them wait until called by the floor supervisor. As Manager John Glick, of Robinson's department store in Beverly Hills, pointed out: "These days, the salesmen say, 'Why work when...
Getaway. In Oakland, Calif., a customer walked into the Val Strough Chevrolet Co., asked to see the newest models, chose a two-door sedan, said: "This looks like what I want," got behind the wheel, started the engine and drove...