Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires offered him more than $1,000 a month to teach fencing to its members and their sons. After three years he left Buenos Aires because he was bored there. For exhibitions in Europe he gets a guarantee, usually under 25%, of the gate. As he travels around the Continent he reports sporting events for various South American newspapers. He is an associate editor of the Littoriale, Roman news-review. Professor Reue Haussy, professional champion of France, is his most dangerous rival; recently he beat Philippe Cattiau, former world's greatest amateur...
...clump of sagging commuters were clustered around their gate, waiting for it to open, after the theatre a few nights ago when a long-drawn-out cry "R-i-i-ne-hart!" rang out across the upper level of Grand Central Terminal and reverberated all about. Most of them were startled and appeared puzzled. One man remarked to his wife that it was funny, he had heard the cry bawled across the midnight darkness of a boulevard in Paris last summer...
Things look very black, and the wicket gate seems far away. But there is still hope, for Chicago has within her own windy limits the latent ability to raise her from her present dilemma. Her citizens have been making the grave mistake of overlooking hidden talent in their very midst, which through modesty and a reticence only natural under the circumstances, refuses to reveal itself. This refers to the unknown group of young men who have taken it upon themselves to relieve the monotony of their fellow citizens in a time of trouble with the free fireworks and similar public...
Perhaps the Harvard president is a little radical in the limits he would place on college athletics, but he voices a protest to the over emphasis of sports for gate receipts that is worthy of careful consideration by every university in this country. William Howard Taft, a young man, has also recently taken a public stand against commercialism in college athletics. He laments the fact that so many men are sacrificing educational advantages by alloting too much of their time to sports. Daily Northwestern...
...angles is necessary in bringing this off that, in an important match, players often try less to make shots than to "leave them safe"?leave both object balls at one end of the table and the cue ball at the other. In salaries, cash prizes and percentages of gate receipts there was $10,000 up for the winner of this final 50-point match?every point worth, therefore, $200. For once Layton was not smiling; Reiselt, with lines standing out in his sallow face, played like a machine. At the end of 31 innings the score...