Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME clearly stated in the preceding sentence that it was referring to an axle-weight or weight-distance figure." The point would have been restated more clearly if TIME had said that a man who "drives a four-door Plymouth . . . pays 34-64? worth of gas taxes and fees per ton to move his car over 100 miles of open road." Thus, on a national basis, a Plymouth owner pays nearly three times more per ton to move one ton of his car 100 miles than does the owner of a 60,000-lb. truck...
...cautiously optimistic about the state of the world. "We have been winning the cold war, step by step," he said. "In consequence, the danger of world war has diminished ... for the present." But the picture also had its dark side-which Democrat Stevenson by implication laid at the door of the Eisenhower Administration. Said he: "Just now, unhappily, [U.S.] prestige and moral influence have declined, together with faith in our judgment and our leadership . . . There is an impression that we are inflexible and erratic...
...Workshop. Kinsey's statistical laboratory is an unlikely spot: the basement of an old, ivy-clad brick building (which also houses the department of home economics) on the tree-shaded campus of Indiana University. The door is marked "Institute for Sex Research-Walk In." A summer visitor is met by a wave of well-chilled air, and the whole atmosphere is one of scientific frigor. There is nothing in sight as provocative as a Petty calendar; only ultra-modern steel desks, work tables, filing cabinets and posture chairs...
...governor of New Amsterdam; in his 20-odd-room Manhattan town house. Four days after his death, Stuyvesant was buried in the family crypt at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bouwerie, where 85 other Stuyvesants and Stuyvesant connections are entombed. Then the vault's massive bronze door (inscribed "Peter Stuyvesant-His Vault") was closed forever...
...Scientific Approach. In Point Mugu, Calif., Chemist John Tabor stepped outside his laboratory door, spotted a 4-ft. rattlesnake poised to strike, reached for a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher, sprayed the snake into a frozen state, then carried it inside and killed...