Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently freshmen have gazed with wonder and admiration at workmen carefully warming the stone gate with blast torches. One suggested termites as the cause of this activity...
Arriving in Boston at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning the Corps will parade through Boston from the Huntington Avenue Yards to Park Street subway station where it will board special trains for Cambridge. After detraining the cadets will march up Boylston Street and into the Yard through the Johnson Gate. Because of limited facilities in the Union half of the group will eat at 11.15 o'clock, while the remainder, will eat at 11.45 o'clock...
...Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art opened a "regional" showing of Philadelphia artists. The exhibition seemed to prove that there is no such thing as a Philadelphia "school." A bleak hospital room with red door ajar was called The Gate of Heaven by Artist Wayne Martin. Henry Cooper had a stooped oldster wheeling a cart through a narrow Paris street. A gingerbread corner store with bright green shades by Grace Thorp Gomberling was typical of Philadelphia's outskirts. Leon Kelly's Interior of a Slaughter House showed two men dwarfed by a large gory...
...Francisco still remembers Juan Miguel Aguirre. In the raw mining town of 1848 he was the first to sell water to citizens who lacked a nearby spring or well. He barreled his water in Sausalito, barged it across the Golden Gate, packed it on burros to peddle through muddy streets for as much as $1.50 per gal. "Caramba!" would cry astonished Juan Miguel Aguirre if he could return to San Francisco next week to see one of the world's great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across...
Whatever its origin, the problem child was finally discovered by the night watchmen and, amid the mingled cheers and boos of Dunster-men was unceremoniously wheeled out through the gate, specially opened for the occasion. Its ears ringing with the echoing boom of a regular cheer for the Austin, the infant was trundled off to points unknown...