Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from north to south. Possibly to give the Villagers a sense of "belonging" the three streets are named Eliot, Dunster, and Lowell. The whole of the Village is contained within a looping road that is at once the perimeter and the only means of getting in or out; a gate, guarded by a man with a gun, stands athwart the neck of this loop...
...Gulf. The annual game with Army became one of football's classics. Talk about the tough Irish schedules, Rockne's half-time orations, his famed Four Horsemen, his theatrical shift and the fancy footwork of Notre Dame backfields topped all football talk in the '20s. Gate receipts went up (last year, after carrying deficits from other sports, Notre Dame netted $240,000 from football)-and so did some new college buildings...
...score or so men are now--as varsity players--entitled to use the Harvard tennis facilities, Coach Barnaby has righteously justified his denial of courts to the other thousands of college men "because of the benefit of the intercollegiate program." The national publicity created by a winning team, the gate receipts from matches, the pride among alumni groups, all these are far more creditable to an institution of Harvard's stature than the awkward volleyings of a mob of ill-coordinated dubs every afternoon...
...bottleneck to the spawning grounds had been the roaring Fraser River chasm called Hell's Gate. Railroad dynamiting in 1913 had spilled tons of rock into the gorge, partially blocking it. Thousands of salmon swimming upstream perished in the turbulent watery so that the number returning four years later was greatly decreased. The loss to the industry was measured in millions annually...
...Hell's Gate is open, thanks to a joint U.S.-Canadian Salmon Fisheries Commission. About half of a $2 million appropriation has been spent to create flume-like fishways which slow the rush of water, give the sockeyes a chance to rest in artificial pools in their upstream struggle. The commission hopes to restore the sockeye cycle to the pre-1913 catch of $35 million a year. But it will not know for sure whether it has succeeded until 1950, when the spawn of the present generation comes home...