Word: gate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the first, Lew Douglas got along with everyone, from Communist Arthur Horner to Imperialist Winston Churchill, from the King & Queen to a 66-year-old miner's wife, who bussed him after his visit to a Yorkshire coal mine. At parties and receptions at Prince's Gate, he had the happy faculty of greeting each guest as though the affair had been a complete flop until the latest arrival. British Laborites were frankly delighted to have a man who was in tune with Washington economic thinking and could speak with authority for the official...
...eleven-year-old girls from Sarasota, Fla., one carrying an indigo snake, the other with a 6-ft. corn snake wrapped around her neck, appeared at the White House and asked to see the President. Gate guards held them at bay. The idea, said the girls, was to show the public that most snakes are not only harmless, but downright useful in killing rats and mice. ¶ Fed up with "high prices and no homes," 18 men, women & children sailed from Los Angeles in a 73-ft. tug to establish a colony on Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles...
Latecomers and would-be readers who missed the morning distribution will find a last-minute reserve at the Bowl just outside the Walter Camp memorial gate. Where newsboys wil lattempt to catch all these who look Harvardian before they enter the saucer...
...shouldering seabags or paper suitcases, started for the gate in a formless mob. Then Murphy had an inspiration. "Wait!" he yelled. "We'll go back in order. Form in lines of six each." Standing at the foot of the gangway, Murphy shook hands with every man as he went aboard...
...starting gate of the process lies the Committee on Admissions, which every spring filters out three-fourths of its applicants, leaving an accepted residue of its own composition. Since the advent of Chairman Richard M. Gummere in 1934 the criteria used in the filtering have moved slowly but surely in the direction of President Conant's "democratization." The College Board has eliminated the specialized examinations which were the joy of carefully prepared prep-schoolers; scholarships, including Mr. Conant's new National variety, have mounted; geographical distribution has been emphasized...