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Word: gate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose career was snipped short by infantile paralysis. Badly in need of an operation for a liver ailment, she was too weak to have it, too poor to pay for it. Promoters of the California's women's football championship game hoped that a third of the gate receipts (pledged to defray Georgia's operation costs) would amount to the needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...passages of law. Defense Counsel Carl Wright Johnson, one of Texas' most eloquent bull-roarers, snorted that conspiracy testimony was stronger against Shook and Burkett, bellowed: "I don't think there is a man on the jury who would send a burr-headed nigger through a cracked gate or fine him a five-cent piece on the evidence they have in this case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Mavericks' Maury | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...GOLDEN GATE-Valenti Angela-Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...sending home 3,000 of 27,000 civilian doctors who were mobilized for service in the West. Perhaps spring will find some of these doctors in French Syria with Weygand's Army, ready to stem a Russian march into Bessarabia, or to drive at Germany through the postern gate of erstwhile Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Boast & Threat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Giants, defending champions, 27-to-0; before a capacity crowd of 32,000, some of whom paid $30 a pair for their seats; at State Fair Grounds, Milwaukee. Held in nearby Milwaukee because Green Bay's Stadium could seat only 23,000, the game's $83,000 gate assured each victorious Packer $704, each Giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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