Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strolled past Widener toward Wigglesworth gate, Vag uncovered the one spot of activity in the Yard. Ground was being cleared for the Lamont Library, and the power shovels and dump trucks were at work demolishing the green slope behind Houghton. Strange things were being done to the Dana-Palmer House. Vag watched the big shovels; only five scoops of the jagged-toothed box to fill the puny dump trucks so full that dirt spilled over their sides as they drove out the Widener gate...
...more widely used; "on the Duffy" means exactly the same thing. Nevertheless, TIME erred in quoting the phrase from a news story; Trainer Smith's actual instructions to Jockey Guerin were more practical than picturesque: "Go right to the front-try to get a breakaway at the gate, and nurse him all the way along...
...William James Burger was making a parish call. After he passed the guarded gate at Lower Cupsuptik, he drove through the Maine dusk between high forest walls of spruce and balsam. By the time he reached the Crowley Brook Camp, five deer had bounded out of his headlights' glare...
...movement spread. In Victoria, 200 beardless demonstrators stormed the legislature building, entering noisily and irreverently by the gate reserved for the Governor General and Lieutenant Governor. "We want five-cent bars," they chanted. In several cities some stores hurriedly cut prices to five or six cents...
...looks on their faces, he mused--and then almost dropped his pipe. Of course, he thought with a start, the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect--co-education was here to stay. In his daze, he narrowly cleared another covey of skirts and sweaters. He could distinctly hear the 1896 Gate squeaking its hinges in disgust and any time now, the Mem Hall bell would start up a dirge celebrating the end of an era. What would the old grads think as they rolled over and bent an ear? What, indeed...