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...estate is to be placed in trust for 75 years; 2) In A. D. 2005 the accumulated principal is to be used to establish, equip and maintain a library on whose shelves will be no woman author, on whose catalogs will be no woman's name, over whose portal will blaze: "No Women Admitted"; 3) To his daughter went $5; 4) To his widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Trance | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...should not be made through a window. The woman in the, case desired a copy of the dean's list of students for use as a social register at her coming presentation. But the key which had been given to her for lawful trespass failed to unlock the ancient portal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAGER STUDENT PAYS $.50 ADMISSION TO DEAN'S OFFICE | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...Architect Gilbert showed the nation what he thought the Court's new home should look like: a classic temple of white stone 385 ft. deep, on each side of which abut lower rectangular wings. The temple-front is roofed to a slight peak above massive Corinthian columns, this portal and the wings to present a façade 304 ft. wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Temple for Justice | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

When the prim Dutch maid opens the door and sees that a friend of the family is calling she returns the cent to the welcome guest. But if she finds on the doorstep a peddler, huckster, bill collector or offensive person of any sort she merely slams the portal and the cent is velvet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Game of Go Bong! | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...Over the portal of the rip-snorting Denver Post, the late part-owner H. H. Tammen, onetime bartender, is credited with having had inscribed: "O Justice! When Expelled from All Other Habitations Make This Thy Dwelling Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Again, Curtis-Martin | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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