Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reel motion picture graphically explaining the simpler features of the Einstein relativity theory, at the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's auditorium has 1,400 seats. Four thousand people tried to attend. In their crowding eagerness they jostled each other, bustled guards, pushed down an iron gate, shoved a heavy door off its hinges...
...suggests to arrive at a correction of this one-sided development is the substitution of one intercollegiate contest in each sport for the multiplicity which now exists. The necessary result, to be inferred from this move, would be a decreased emphasis on frequent gladiatorial combats, supported by huge gate receipts, and a corresponding transfer of attention to individual physical, training...
...early morning haste. Twice before had he proudly led the public line into the White House for the New Year's Day Reception (a custom originated by President John Adams in 1801) and now he almost ran to be again the first at the White House gate on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...unloaded, and soon her contraband cargo began to appear in New London speakeasies at $2 per bottle. Some Coast Guardsmen became drunk and rowdy. The base commander put a guard around his station, leveled destroyer searchlights upon it. Each guardsman "going ashore" was thoroughly searched at the gate to prevent liquor smuggling out of the base. The gate kiosk was stacked with miscellaneous bottles. General courts martial were ordered with 24 guardsmen involved in charges of intoxication, or pilfering liquor...