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Word: gate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gerry Genn, who led the team with a seventh place, negotiated the 37 gate, three-quarter mile course in 179.9 seconds, fifteen seconds behind leader Don Henderson of Middlebury. Rod Nordblom captured nineteenth place with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Fourth in Invitation Skiing | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Bill Bingham was the only Harvard man at the Boston Garden who had anything to smile about last night. He picked up 25 percent of a capacity gate while his basketball team lost to Dartmouth, 59 to 47, and took permanent possession of last place in the Ivy League...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: Green Triumphs, 59-47, Crushes Crimson Hopes | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

Where Stars Walk (by Micheál MacLiammóir; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) is the Dublin Gate Theater's third Broadway production and first wholly inside job. Written by one of the Gate's two founders and star performers, the play isn't really much good but it is often exceedingly pleasant. Half fantasy and half satire, in its dawdling as well as its dreaming it is altogether Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Promoter Sol Strauss won a victory of sorts. Jersey Joe Walcott reluctantly signed on Sol's terms (20% of the net gate, radio and television returns, 22½% of the movie rights) instead of his own (30%) for a return bout with Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium on June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Soaring Ambition | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Lady Says "No!" (by Denis Johnston; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) followed John Bull's Other Island as the Dublin Gate Theater's second Broadway offering. A highly expressionistic fantasy first produced in 1929, it tells of an actor (Micheál MacLiammoir) who is accidentally knocked unconscious while playing Irish Rebel Robert Emmet (1778-1803) in a costume play. The rest of The Old Lady consists of the actor's delirious visions: he is still Emmet, but an Emmet wandering through the streets and pubs and literary gatherings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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