Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move remindful of Skeezix, who was left on the Walletts' doorstep just 21 years ago, the CRIMSON received a foundling yesterday afternoon by a mysterious Radcliffe mother, who apparently could not take care of it in a proper and humane fashion...
...enjoys calling the U.S. Minister (Meredith Nicholson, aged 74) "Boy." Once the Minister's wife complained that there was no good milk in Managua, the capital. Next morning she found a cow on her doorstep - a gift from the President...
Recently Mr. Lewis became alarmed at the dust piling up in such world-famed centers of Philadelphic culture as the Franklin Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. Observing that adult-education clubs flourished in Philadelphia suburbs, he launched a campaign. He put circulars on every Philadelphia doorstep, posters in every Philadelphia streetcar, inviting one & all to join a new Junto and gather in the museums for fun and learning. Members would attend ten-week courses (at $2 a course) on such subjects as art, cartooning, music, nature, airplanes, contract bridge, writing, gardening, philosophy, dancing. To teach them...
...defense industry-steel-suffering from lack of raw material because committeemen delay . .. price authority and suitable penalties. . . . It may be that Mr. Henderson is not temperamentally the best man . . . but his honesty, patriotism and ruggedness are beyond question. . . . Price chaos in many industries is at [Congress'] doorstep...
...forceful high War Policy Board. There are innumerable agencies at the same level of authority. There is no integrated authority. There is no rational organization. There is no rational plan. Who, or what, is at fault? "The major responsibility for this state of affairs rests squarely on the doorstep of the President...