Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the history of the tradition reaches back to 1876, the year of Matthews' opening. The first occupant of the room, Harcourt Amory '76, bored a hole down into the top of his bedroom door and placed in it a set of documents intended to be a Transmittindum (which in Latin means "something which must be passed...
...Connic Lynch, Matthews janitor for the past 14 years; the scroll, "The Matthews Transmittindum" which had rested in a small, dark hole in the top of a Matthews 19 bedroom door for the past 67 years...
...explainer took the smile as a favorable sign, and continued with eloquence: "If you walk out that door [pointing to the door to North Korea], your troubles will be at an end. Your family is waiting for you in Kaesong [six miles away] and you will see them tonight." The P.W. leaned forward as though interested, and lit a cigarette...
Proofs of ant citizenship can be falsified rather easily, and many intruders take advantage of this fact. A newly fertilized Jet Black Ant queen sometimes hangs around the door of a foreign colony until she takes on some of its characteristic odor. After a time she marches in boldly. The defenders, thinking she is one of them, do not stop her. When she finds the resident queen, she climbs on top of the incumbent and bites off her head. Then she starts laying eggs. Her young can eventually become so numerous that they dominate the colony...
...futile gesture of contempt, an enraged student threw dry leaves into an officer's face, then sprinted for the Yard. But the police ignored the bold agitator, and dragged a smirking youth without his Card toward the basement of Lehman. Now thinning, the ralliers stamped and shouted as the door closed on the unfortunate one. Yells of "The cop beats his wife," rose above the roar...