Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: You had this job hunt going, and you were banging pretty hard on Betty Currie's door. You don't think the President could have come to the conclusion that he had to keep you happy and move you out of town...
...alarm, had it been working, would have alerted the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) if the perpetrator broke in through an alarmed door, according to Francis D. "Bud" Riley, chief of police. At this point in the investigation, Riley said HUPD does not know how the perpetrator entered Byerly Hall...
...most surprising works of the exhibit is 1949's Study for Seaweed (number 19 in the exhibition), a direct transfer of the outlines of a seaweed plant pinned to the door of Kelly's Bellelle cottage. At first sight, especially due to its placement near some of Kelly's transfers of window frames, one might mistake Study for Seaweed for window glass being broken by the intrusive head of a nail or perhaps the artist's pencil. In fact, it is sometimes extremely difficult to discern the content of these paintings. But that is not the point. You see, Kelly...
...only real objection I can foresee is the obvious one: Students will sneak coffee out of the cafe and soil the books. This problem is easily overcome. Install a checker at the door-if you inspect people's bags and jackets, hardly any food or drink will escape into the stacks. Besides, people are sneaking food and drink into the library as it is. A wet book is not a dead duck, but an undercaffeinated student is a miserable thing...
...make for good manners, tending to make a snob of an impressionable boy, who learns to think that he has been sought after by a social Boston of which he does not altogether approve, of which he may even be a bit contemptuous. Yet it does open a door for a needed contact with girls; it is possible for the not-too-shy man to call and make friends...