Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the attempts of Pennsylvania and, more recently. Columbia will have any far reaching effects on the popularity or the gate receipts of football can only be revealed by time. But the decrease of this over emphasis is only secondary. If these universities succeed in organizing an effective control of athletics, football will take its place along with the other sports that the college sponsors...
...permit for a longstanding intercoastal football game between Stanford and Dartmouth Nov. 28 in Harvard Stadium. His reason: a game between the plain people's Boston College and Holy Cross (Roman Catholic) was scheduled for the same day at Fenway Park; the Stanford-Dartmouth game would cut the gate receipts of a home industry...
...fleet of cars drew up at the gate of the palace. In the first car sat Dr. Gregorio Maranon, prominent Republican, guarantor for the safety of the caravan. King & Queen bade each other a tearful goodbye. Queen Victoria Eugenie and her children began their flight to France by driving to the Escorial, that rambling building 31 miles from Madrid that is at the same time a monastery, a church, a palace and a mausoleum, whose name is literally "The Dump." A curious crowd gathered at the Escorial railroad station where the Royal car, its white blinds drawn, stood coupled...
While Republican Madrid roared itself hoarse in the streets, Alfonso stayed in his palace until 8 p. m. A little group of lean, white-haired nobles gathered in the throne room to bid him farewell. Slowly the King passed down the line of Royal Halberdiers. Through a side gate in the garden he stepped, entered his racing car which was waiting at the curb and sped through the city. President Alcala Zamora in a second car accompanied him to the city limits. On a hill overlooking Madrid, Alfonso got out for a moment to look back at the city...
...Before the formation of the National Hockey League (1908), so large were the gate receipts of one Montreal team that Canadian hockey fans nicknamed it the "Millionaires." The name stuck, was used by subsequent successful teams, finally devolved upon the Canadiens' rooters...