Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suzuki as the Emperor's Messenger. During the sword ceremony the Imperial obstetricians could hardly wait. Directly afterward they pounced reverently on the babe, meticulously ascertained that he was 50 centimetres long (about 19 3/4 in.), weighed 7 lb., 3 oz. With bumble folk kneeling outside the Palace gate in freezing weather, a stream of princes, dignitaries and ambassadors began to roll in with congratulations at 7 a. m. First to arrive were Prince and Princess Chichibu. He, as the Emperor's eldest brother, has played for years the thankless role of heir presumptive. Relieved of this...
...Hero Hans a beauteous U. S. heiress appears, but Hans scorns a life of ease in the U. S., rushes to do Nazi battle in the streets of Berlin and dies, as did Horst, assassinated by Reds. In the final scene Nazis march triumphant under Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to celebrate Hitler's rise to Chancellor. While this closing episode was being filmed excited Storm Troopers beat up a U. S. spectator who failed to salute the Nazi banner. To salute it as it flashed on the screen up popped last week's entire audience, including former...
...them or not. There is no reason in the nature of things why the student should not pay the cost of his participation in athletics. The only question is whether such payment should be exacted so long as there exists such a lucrative source of income as football gate receipts. The position of the football team as the goose that lays the golden eggs for the rest of the athletic program to live on, is a peculiarly American phenomenon, not unaccompanied by evils of its own. But so long as the phenomenon exists, to even its present extent...
...When gate receipts fall off to the extent to which they declined last fall, either the Corporation should allow us to assess the students for the use of our buildings and equipment or should aid us from the general funds of the University." This statement in Mr. Bingham's first report to President Conant reveals the state of mind to which a prolonged and relentless budgetary deflation has brought the officials of the Athletic Association. Coached virtually in the terms of an ultimatum, it is a declaration that the B.A.A. has reached the end of its rope, that the process...
Left. By George Ehret, German-born brewer, founder of Manhattan's old Hell Gate Brewery, maker of once famed Franziskaner: $39,801,569; $105,000 to charity, $50,000 to a sister-in-law, the rest to six children and a grandson. He died almost seven years ago, aged 92 (TIME...