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Word: gate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...follow. These broadcasts would bring in a substantial sum each year which could be added to the present Athletic Endowment Fund. The addition of this money to the Endowment Fund is not to be lightly rejected, as Harvard's other major and minor sports cannot depend upon football's gate receipts forever. The sooner that athletics here in Cambridge are adequately supported by endowment, the better it will be for the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISSED OPPORTUNITY | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

...rival notions have been somewhat adrift. San Franciscans point out that Congress designated their Fair, which will begin in February 1939, two months before New York's, as "America's official World's Fair of the West in 1939." Its actual title, however, is "Golden Gate International Exposition" with the major subtitle "Pageant of the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cloven Hoofs | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...sound motion picture of the "Building of the Golden Gate Bridge" was shown last night at the New Lecture Hall at 7:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Golden Gate" Movie | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

...refugees who did not step aside in time. I saw a munitions truck explode near me and watched an armored car burn. At Fengyang a red-eyed, swollen-lipped figure hailed me. He was General Sun Lien-chung, Commander of the 26th Battalion. He stood disconsolately outside the gate of the city and remarked: 'Things are upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Things Upside Down | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Japanese proceeded to the city administration building and, when dawn broke, hoisted the Japanese flag, creating an extraordinary panic among the Chinese forces within the walls, all of whom fled by every available gate, some with and some without arms, and all without firing a shot. Those fifteen scouts, without a single man killed or wounded, remained in undisputed possession of Soochow for the next three hours, until other Japanese forces overtook them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Things Upside Down | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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