Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Craven, the playwright, apparently noting this tendency that the Germans are calling "Gemutlichkelt", paces his production slowly and sets it in a middle class home in Kansas. Here the audience is given a lesson in speeding the parting guest. Taylor Holmes is the unwanted visitor who gets the gate. Not only does he have to leave but when he tries to reciprocate evil with good by finding a career, for one of the girls in the family where he had been staying, the girl elopes on the night he had planned to announce his engagement...
...trotting behind a murderous Japanese barrage the Imperial troops entered Shanhaikwan's dragon-crested South Gate. Firing from cover Chinese riflemen drove them back once, twice. Next artillery battered breaches in the walls, Japanese troops burst through, fought bayonet-to-bayonet with desperate Chinese among the low mud huts of Shanhaikwan's narrow, winding streets. Hurtling from the sky Japanese bombs set the city afire, rained death among soldiers and civilians alike. Japanese gunners, when they finally got the range, concentrated on Shanhaikwan's famed Drum Tower which has sounded, warnings for centuries, sent it crashing down...
...type, Harvard's athletic program is financed almost entirely by football ticket sales. The policy has been accepted for years, yet in times of depression, its essential weaknesses are strongly revealed. It leads to excessive ballyhoo, in the attempt to raise revenue; it has put all the stress on gate receipts, the most uncertain variable in the whole financial procedure; and most important, there are definite indications that that source of revenue will continue to weaken, an interest wanes in he sport. The proposed fixed fee to be paid by all undergraduates on the term bills is a step...
...some of our athletic equipment which is made necessary by these very increased responsibilities which we have assumed. Undergraduates, like other individuals, do not want to pay for anything which they think they should get for nothing. At the present time our income is derived first from gate receipts (mostly football), and second, from charges to the students for the use of certain buildings, the tennis and squash courts, and single scull rowing. From the latter source we receive $44,494.60, which is about 5 per cent of our revenue...
...league, have the cheapest; salaries for this season averaged $110. The Packers' profits go to the Green Bay American Legion. A profitable new team in the league this year is the Boston Braves, owned by a laundryman of Washington, D. C., one George Marshall. While college football gate receipts this year declined 15%, professional receipts did not decrease at all. Standing of the teams after last week's games...