Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, like many other colleges, long feared that attendance would stuffer if games were broadcast over the radio. The College has permitted broadcasts only for the last few years, since it became apparent that air accounts of grid contests actually helped stimulate interest--and gate receipts...
...cities of faith, Rome and Jerusalem. In Roman churches, amid a fateful battle to save Italy from Communism (see FOREIGN NEWS), priests substituted olive branches for the usual palm branches, to express their hope that peace would prevail. In Jerusalem, the tradition?.! procession from Bethany to Jerusalem's gate was canceled, because of the new spurt of fighting in the Holy Land...
Later, some 70,000 non-Communists stood before the old German Reichstag, listening to Socialist Leader Franz Neumann. Pointing to Berlin's historic city gate, on the border between the U.S. and the Soviet sectors, he cried: "There stands the Brandenburger Tor. One hundred years ago it was the border of Berlin. Now it is the border where freedom ends...
...Gate receipts from the Elliott-Kluckhohn duel will go towards financing prizes in the Graduate Forum's $150 contest on "What the Social Sciences Most Need...
Last year, Kilpatrick boosted the gate to $7,800,000, eclipsing Rickard's alltime record ($7,600,000 in 1927) and turned in a net profit of $1,200,000. Said he: "I think business is good enough to support two Gardens. When the new one is ready, we'll keep the old one going...