Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do invite the attention of our citizens and of friends beyond our borders to the World's Fair at New York and the Golden Gate International Exposition at San Francisco. . . ." read an official proclamation...
Last year more than $75,000,000 from football gate receipts went into the treasuries of U. S. colleges. This year Notre Dame alone will have a football income of almost $1,000,000. The University of California showed a net profit of $299,425.61 on its books at the end of the ten-week football season last year, after guarantees to visiting teams had been paid and deductions made for expenses. In addition to the season's income, California received $104,000 for a side job: playing in Pasadena's Rose Bowl on New Year...
...prestige show," a big loan exhibition of masterwork in which no single item is ostensibly for sale. Last week, Knoedler displayed against the black velvet of its inner rooms 58 borrowed pictures by three French artists of the early 19th Century: Gros, Géricault, Delacroix. The gate receipts were to go to a society called "La Sauvegarde de l'Art Fran...
Complaining that "in many American colleges it is possible for a boy to win-twelve letters without learning to write one," President Hutchins suggests that the best way to rid college football of overemphasis is to have a ten cent gate. He would also give athletic directors some kind of academic position "so that their jobs depend on their ability as instructors and their character as men, and not on the gates they draw...
...happy medium at which Harvard is attempting to arrive through having on the one hand a decent amateur football team and on the other an endowment plan. This endowment plan will in the future mean that Harvard's athletic program will not depend solely on up and down football gate receipts. The plan is an infant now, but an infant with giant possibilities...