Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billowing frocks she graces the lawn, and crowds gather about her doorstep at dusk. Who is she? How do you get to know her? What did she come here for, anyway? How does she spend her time, where does she eat, what does she do for recreation and exercise...
...publisher in England. He ran the office all through the Battle of Britain—the toughest six months of news coverage any TIME man has ever known. He still can't figure out why he wasn't killed when a loaded Junkers bomber crashed almost on his doorstep; the terrific explosion blew his housekeeper from one room right through the door into another, bashed in the whole house. After that Graebner slept in the office-beside his desk on nights when the bombings were light-in the basement shelter when they were...
...said grateful Jesse Jones. "The baby that was left on our doorstep had not been cleaned or washed...
...reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each year from a single hive...
...comic-strip character had his 21st birthday last week. He was Skeezix Wallet, star of Frank King's saga of homey, U.S. middle-class life, Gasoline Alley. Unlike most other comic-strip characters, Skeezix has grown every day since a flabbergasted Uncle Walt found him on the doorstep of his home. At Springfield's Illinois State Museum, Skeezix's birthday was celebrated with an exhibition of Cartoonist King's original Skeezix drawings. They showed that, in the course of some 34,000 pictures of Skeezix, Cartoonist King's draughtsmanship had grown almost as much...