Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bridge Bids. Last week a bid of $10,494,000 won for McClintic-Marshall, Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s new subsidiary, the job of constructing the superstructure for San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Close behind was Columbia Steel, United States Steel Corp.'s subsidiary, whose bid was $182,000 higher. For the construction of the approach spans, Columbia Steel's winning bid of $996.000 was $97,400 under McClintic-Marshall...
...going to burn you all up for this! Wait till you hear from the Senator from Ohio." Fess admitted the whole story, of how he had been refused entrance to a night club, and then had called upon a nearby policeman to help him "crash the gate." When the policeman (whom he referred to in court as "Dick") had tried to quiet him, Fess directed his hostility at him. To the magistrate Fess explained: "I was celebrating an addition to our family four days ago. I want the court to accept my apology." He showed some snapshots to the magistrate...
...assist. The season's schedule could consist of games with class teams, preparatory schools and 150-pound teams from other colleges. The expense of obtaining equipment and engaging a coach indeed presents one obstacle to the plan. But it is quite possible that, if the games were properly scheduled, gate receipts would cover a considerable portion of this cost...
...Last week Miss Dawes, luckier than King Edward, was able to advance upon Their Majesties, curtsey to the King, curtsey to the Queen, and retire in good order. Next day her appendix was removed by Sir Crisp English, operating at the U. S. Embassy in Princes Gate. So successful was this operation that Ambassador Dawes sailed the following day on the Bremen to grapple with Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...
...Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman into French. Gide's chief claim to notoriety is his sympathetic exposition of homosexuality. His consuming curiosity once nearly cost him his life when he followed an African native marriage procession into the forbidden chamber. Some of his (translated) books: Strait Is the Gate, The Counterfeiters, The School for Wives, Travels in the Congo, The Immoralist...