Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imagine she hears you stop, but you knock anyway and you can't tell about the voice that answers, so you push the door and sidle into a little room. You suppose it is a dirty room, like the rest of the theatre, and old, but you don't look. It is very small because she is leaning into a mirror almost in front of you. Then she turns around and you notice for a minute that she is wearing a little house-coat like your aunt buys in Woolworth's and she has makeup...
What Goes Up . . . Actually, speculation and hoarding provoked by Korea drove most commodities higher than any shortage justified. But the rise stimulated bigger production, which helped knock prices down. Rubber shot as high as 75? a lb. But as soon as U.S. synthetic plants got into big production of rubber at 23? a lb., natural-rubber prices collapsed. Similarly, the slump in the textile industry sent wool tumbling...
...chair in the front row to ask what is troubling a boy looking puzzled in the back of the lecture room. His lunch hour is usually spent answering the questions of students who have remained after class, and on his office door is the sign "Don't knock--walk in." Several hundred pages of notes and problems that he has prepared help to clarify the laboratory experiments. As one student put it, "When one of his students flunks Chemistry, Nash probably lays awake nights worrying about...
...because she "wasn't good for anything." One night a girl friend told her that there were "nice suet cakes and tea to drink" at the house of a Russian living in the Cite Falguiére. The girls stood shivering on the doorstep, afraid to knock. A neighboring painter, as poor and as cold as themselves, but a man of talent, took them...
...high regard in which Eliot men hold their Master is shared by almost every student exposed to Finley's thoughtful, out-going personality. As enthusiastic about Finley as any Eliot man is the Kirkland senior who answered a knock on his door one morning to find Finley smiling on the doorstep. The senior had left his pipe during an interview at Eliot, and Finley had trudged up five flights to return...