Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to determine how much damage television is doing to football gate receipts, telecasts of football games will be drastically cut in the Greater Boston area next fall...
Inside the gate at Camp Pickett, deep in the dusty Virginia pine barrens, a soldier stood methodically thrusting copies of a neat, mimeographed pamphlet into the hands of arriving draftees. The cover bore the grape-leaf emblem of the 43rd ("Winged Victory") Division, and the first page carried a message from its commander: "You have just joined the best outfit in the Army ... I expect to see you doing your jobs as soldiers in the best division in the best Army in the world. (Signed) Kenneth F. Cramer, Major General, Commanding...
...have power and speed to spare, Richards has the problem of a shaky pitching staff. His solution: the now-famous switch maneuver against Boston, and a constant juggling, prodding and pushing of his other players. Richards' hustling White Sox, a tooth & nail team, is already surefire at the gate (home attendance is up 29%). For White Sox fans, with only six first-division teams in 30 years, it's high time. Chicago's last American League pennant winner: the infamous Black...
Besides decreased football revenues, constantly growing upkeep costs on the athletic plant are behind the heavy losses. The deficit for the past year was almost double that predicted. Overestimation of gate receipts from football, it is understood, were partly responsible for the huge discrepancy between the expected and actual deficit of the H.A.A...
...Harvard athletics," the semi-official Bulletin notes, "are not to be dependent upon football gate receipts or the profits of any sport . . . The new director of athletics will not be responsible for 'balancing the budget' . . . Obviously, however, there is a limit to what Harvard can afford in this direction, but within reasonable bounds the director of athletics has as his duty the building of a good program...