Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy Cross game tomorrow admission will also be by ticket only. Owing to the space limitations of the Indoor Athletic Building courts, only 1600 tickets will be distributed at the H.A.A. offices today and tomorrow; what is not sold there will go on sale at the gate at 6:30 o'clock. It will be a case of first come, first served; and when 1600 seats have been sold, there will be no further admittance...
...game will be played under Harvard auspices, with the H.A.A. selecting the officials and taking a percentage cut on the gate...
...child who seldom went to parties. Her playmates were a pet goat, a pony and a horse named Billy, and she stood no nonsense from them. Once the pony took the bit in his teeth and tried to run away with her. Virginia guided him through the half-open gate of a handy race track, and let him run around the track until his wind gave...
Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov was entertaining General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower at a lavish Hohenzollern palace in Potsdam. Sergeant Harold Kempner, a Russian-speaking Philadelphian on the staff of the A.M.G.'s weekly Grooper, crashed the gate and accosted Zhukov...
Small Fry Coddler. He bought small bond issues of rural school districts, which no one else would touch. When lack of bids threatened the whole Golden Gate Bridge project, A.P. bought the bonds. He also coddled the small fry: any regularly employed person can borrow up to $300 on his signature alone. When the Securities and Exchange Commission objected to some of his operations, A.P. defended himself by attacking. He haled the SEC into court...