Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heeding the complaints of residents in Dunster, Winthrop, and Leverett Houses, the Plympton Street Gate to the Yard is now left open after 6 o'clock...
...early date, took a hand in the store's finances, but by the century's turn he had lost interest in the business. A linguist and amateur philosopher who quoted continually from Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward), he used to pedal his bicycle around & around Golden Gate Park, pockets crammed with Marxian tracts and pamphlets. Before he died in 1907 Mary...
...made in the program, these two universities will have to make a similar choice. In Mr. Bingham's opinion the eight-game maximum should Be continued. He is probably right in his judgment of collegiate opinion. Interest in football, which can only be measured by the shifting yardstick og gate receipts, seems to be returning to the intensity of the pre-depression days, and any serious curtailment of the program would meet with serious hostility on the part of students and alumni alike...
...success. The success of Kitty lies in the simple fact that he had no secret. His Shakspere was the writer of beautiful poetry and stirring drama, rather than the cabalistic soothsayer lesser minds have tried to make him. Not for Kittredge a mystical analysis on the knocking on the gate in Macbeth. To him this scene was merely another instance of the Bard's incomparable use of contrast in dramatic craftsmanship, and the unravelling of the mysteries of Elizabethan language coupled with an appreciation of Shakspere's poetry was all that Kittredge attempted. He saw Shakspere as a man, writing...
...Leon had excelled at writing Latin verse, had a facile talent for music and painting, had once invented an apparatus for enlarging photographs, but the only thing he really liked was pottering round the garden, fixing things in the house. For years he had hardly gone out-side the gate. When he did, it took him hours to get anywhere, as he would carefully plan his "means of transport" ahead of time from guides that were out of date. He used soap only on Sundays, other days he merely rubbed the end of his nose with a wet towel...