Word: gate
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tunn-Chwing" is much poorer. It is far more ambitious in its nature, as it is a relation of the incoherent ramblings of an opium-smoking woman, shattered by the insidious habit which has mastered her. As such, it immediately invites comparison with Rud-yard Kipling's "At the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," to which it bears much similarity in conception and to which, it is almost needless to say, it is infinitely inferior. And for several faulty English constructions in the opening paragraph, there is not the excuse of delineating an opium eater's vagaries of thought...
...they will all be indicated by large numbers on the day of the game. The entrances for holders of admission tickets are numbered 1, 2 and 3, and are at the northwest corner of One Hundred and Fifty-fifth St. and Eighth Ave. Ticket offices will be at these gates for the sale of admission tickets. Entrance No. 4 will be in One Hundred and Fifty-fifth St., and the people who have grand stand tickets will enter there. No. 5 will be the second gate in One Hundred and Fifty-fifth St., and is for the holders of Stand...
...innovation of starting from the college yard was proved a success, for the barges drove out the Johnson gate and the great crowd hurried across the yard and cheered again and again as they drove by, the last three times nine for Harvard continuing until the team had disappeared around the corner by Beck...
...necessary to check each man's name as he enters; and for that purpose all men from A to J inclusive must enter at the usual door; all others at the door opening directly from the yard near the new gate...
...committee is sorry to be compelled to announce that it has the names of a number of seniors who have so far abused their privilege as to sell their tickets. All the numbered tickets of such men will be cancelled and the gate keepers are instructed to refuse admission to the persons presenting them...