Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Christmas a new development struck at the work-pattern of the efficient and adamant gate-closers. The College opened a bright, new, functional library and said it was specifically for the undergraduate. And the undergraduate dutifully hurried over to take a look. Freshmen found a long but adequate approach sweeping in past Widener and Houghton; upperclassmen found a large steel gate. Some trudged sadly along the well-worn route swinging almost over to Lehman Hall. Less determined students shuffled down to Cronin's or back to their rooms. Lamont attendance began to fall perceptibly...
...generations after that, legions of wandering newsmen made the Golden Gate a port of call. Some big names were among them. Rudyard Kipling, says Author Bruce, was "a bad reporter . . . snagging on his careless pen events and scenes that were never there." White-coated Horace Greeley found the climate the "worst on earth." Nevertheless, he went back to New York and urged young men to go west...
...City, Jewish and Arab soldiers chatted amiably back & forth across narrow strips of no man's land. One Arab Legion captain, lifting a glass of tea, called out: "May Allah grant that the end of the war come before my next glass of tea!" Near the Jaffa Gate, unarmed Legionnaires sat dangling their legs over the wall of the Old City. In the streets below, Arab soldiers were dancing, without swords, a Bedouin sword dance. Jewish and Arab civilians even staged a football match. The Israeli team...
Chewing a fat, four-inch stogie, Finland's most popular "war criminal" stepped out the gate of Helsinki's Sornas Prison last week into the welcoming arms of his wife, eight children and eleven grandchildren. White-haired, 68-year-old Vaino Tanner, condemned by a Communist-run tribunal for advocating war with Russia in 1941, had been granted remission of half his 5½-year sentence. "I am sure I am the best living advertisement for Finnish prisons," smiled the old man. "I have gained 15 pounds in weight and feel fitter than ever...
...around and listened to the radio or telephoned friends. At 6 p.m., just after the family tea, Elizabeth's pains began. Nurse Rowe rushed her to the delivery room and summoned Sir William. Within an hour three more doctors had slipped into the palace by the electricians' gate in the rear. Philip went moodily down to knock a squash ball around the palace court...