Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Double Doors. Near Trenton, N.J., the caravan pulled up at a Howard Johnson roadside restaurant. Mikoyan breakfasted at the counter (tomato juice, toast, marmalade, coffee), and, as the Soviet Union's chief dispenser of consumer goods, studied with fascination a popcorn maker, gum and cigarette vending machines. At Perryville, Md., the cars stopped at the pink stucco Oakcrest Motel. Through an interpreter Mikoyan braced the astonished owner: Did he make a profit? ("That's what we're in business for.") Why did the units have two doors? ("One's a storm door.") Did his family help...
Most romantic of all, however, are the trap door, the secret between-floors passage and the hidden room which date back to the 1800's and Professor of Latin Charles Beck. Beck, it seems, was an ardent abolitionist. It appears that he had these devices constructed for the Underground Railway. The trapdoor leads to a secret chamber at the end of which a laddered well descends to the basement. During the twenties this apparatus constituted great fun and games for freshmen and section men who used to climb up an down the shaft. Unfortunately, the passage was subsequently boarded...
...Warren mystique reaches far and wide. At this point even book salesmen ask to see the trap-door and the room where Kittredge, Lowes and Bliss Perry once examined. Visiting chairmen of other English departments return to see the house which gave birth to their scholarly careers. Everyone agrees that something intangible contributes to making Warren House the indispensable institution it has become. Perhaps one professor best summed it up in quoting Santayana's description of Concord: "External humility and inward pride." ir?-, iohkRCcotkle
...following the same line as the Protestants. "We don't expect all Catholics to be saints and martyrs," said one priest last week. "The church is not a society of the elect. If a Catholic wavers under the pressure of a dictatorial state, sins and repents, the door is open...
KAISER-ALFA ROMEO DEAL will link the two automakers in Argentina, where Industrias Kaiser now turns out Jeeps and cars similar to the 1955 Manhattan. Next fall Kaiser will start assembling small cars with its own four-cylinder engines and sporty, four-door Alfa Romeo bodies made by Kaiser in Argentina, with dies from Italy...