Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where he had left off in his $10,000-a-year job as New York City Park Commissioner, his nothing-a-year job as a member of the city's Triborough Bridge Authority. The bridge, which will connect Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx in the vicinity of Hell Gate, is being built with $42,000,000 of PWA funds...
...helped his partner Vines pull out the third set, 13-11. What happened then amazed a crowd of 15,000 who were getting ready to go home before midnight. Knowing as well as Promoter O'Brien that a victory for Lott & Stoefen would help the tour's gate receipts, Tilden & Vines suddenly became invincible, smashed through the next two sets, won the match 3-6, 14-16, 13-11, 8-6, 6-4. It was the longest professional tennis match on record, 14 games longer than one in which Vines nosed out Tilden in Los Angeles last year...
...elections of the Senior Class Secretary, and of the Class, Class Day, and Photograph Committees, which were postponed before the recess, will be held in the Lodge of the Class of '77 Gate on Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The voting will be by the Australian system...
...professionalism." Those who have had relations with Mr. Bingham have always realized that he placed more emphasis on the needs of the players than on the desires of the grandstand. Now, however, he is bringing out reasons why a so-called professional coach will not react favorably on the gate receipts. It is indeed encouraging to realize that he is not for a compromise in his selection, let alone a surrender...
...German ham actors and actresses, a creaking bus coughed and sputtered across Hanover last week amid dense fog toward the troupe's next one-night stand. ";Ich kann gar nichts sehen. I can't see a thing" grumbled the bus driver. Just then he crashed through a railway safety gate, jammed his bus on the tracks...