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Excellent catch.

Unfortunately Google Books has inaccurate publication data - it doesn't know about works being published first in Astounding, so it thinks the date of Beyond This Horizon is 1960. So it's not a reliable source for finding the earliest usage. It does show another author saying "the door dilated" in Astounding in 1943, so the trope caught on fast.
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