Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond climbed the last steps to his tower room. He was tired. He feared that he had strained something dedicating things. All he wanted to do now was to sleep. He opened the door and saw a black bottle standing on his early eliot gate-legged table. He approached the bottle. Maybe it was something to drink. Maybe it was Absorbine Junior. There was nothing at all about "After every meal. Two tablespoons for adults." so the Vagabond thought it could do him no harm. He drank...
...Last year's deficit came to $7,000. Describing the athletic outlay as ''millstones about the neck of the school which bid fair to bankrupt and close [it] within five years." President Athearn declared that the day of intercollegiate athletic spectacles is gone, never to return. "Gate receipts,'' mourned he, "will not pay the $1,000,000 indebtedness on our athletic plant. Neither will friends of the university pay for a 'dead horse...
...pages, eleven poems. Poet Masefield telescopes the Iliad's 24 books, hitting such high spots as Paris' rape of Helen, Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia for a favorable wind, and focusing on wily Odysseus' successful gate-crashing scheme of the Wooden Horse. Though he contributes no mighty lines or markedly memorable verse to the Troy legend, Masefield's dramatic narrative, in which different speakers take up the story in turn, adds some freshness of its own to an oft-told tale...
While Harvard rooters were busy defending the goal posts inside the Stadium last Saturday after the game, spectators coming out Gate 33, on the Soldiers Field side witnessed another battle just outside the Stadium. This time the object of the attack was Edward G. Robinson, movie actor, and star of "Five Star Final", "The Hatchet Man", and "Tiger Shark". Mr. Robinson, standing by his car, went unnoticed until an observant boy ran up to him with a pencil and a ticket stub and asked him for his autograph. In an instant a crowd, waving pencils and papers engulfed...
...Stadium will be open at 12.15 o'clock and there will be seats on sale for the game at Gates 3, 4 and 6 on North Harvard Street, Gate 9 at the entrance from the parking place, and Gate 13 on the speedway...