Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That evening the huge Los Angeles Coliseum, 1932 Olympic stadium, was half-filled when Republican State Chairman Earl Warren arose to introduce Nominee Landon, who had not yet appeared. Spotlights picked out a distant gate, a band struck up Oh! Susanna, and into the stadium burst Alf Landon, upright in the back seat of an open car, waving his hat, grimacing under showers of confetti which pelted him as he circled the running track...
Harvard had its first fire of the year last evening at 9 o'clock when a large pile of leaves blazed up in front of the main gate of Winthrop House on Memorial Drive. As usual, four of Cambridge's finest engines and about two hundred students turned out promptly...
...coins at a price above face value. Congress authorized the first such issue in 1892 for the Columbian Exposition, provided for 100,000 coins to be minted for the 1937 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration. The commemorative half dollar displays on one side a bear (Monarch II. Golden Gate Park grizzly), on the reverse side the bridge. Designer: Jacques Schnier...
Scraps of truth, however, do come out of Mr. Tunis' athletic plant is dependent on football gate receipts. "Athletics for all" do not come out of the air, and certainly Mr. Conant has not as yet collected his endowment fund for athletics...
...ultimate way out is of course, an endowment sufficiently large to eradicate the necessity of high priced football tickets and the dependence of Athletic Associations on gate receipts. Meantime, one-lunged writers of Mr. Tunis' ilk should take a look around and check their facts before pounding their typewriters...