Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew of technicians raced out to Richland, eight miles from the check-in gate, to test the suspected wrench and the patrolman's home. Both proved to be radioactive. At once, the intricate machinery of the Atomic Age whirred into action...
William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, stated last November that uncontrolled telecasting of football games was cutting seriously into gate receipts...
Last December and earlier this year, the N.C.A.A. met to discuss the possibility of limiting television broadcasts especially because they harm gate receipts...
...brass band avoided the mortar-crumpled south gate and the shattered railway station where, on Children's Day as on all other days, the abandoned, the homeless, the orphans prowled restlessly, begging, stealing, conniving to stay alive. They screamed "chop-chop" (food) at G.I.s, hovered hungrily around the soldiers who uncomfortably ate their rations...
Farewell to the Grand Style. The Enclosure is an exclusive suburb obviously set on Boston's North Shore. A faintly Renaissance gate opening on ten driveways, houses ranging in style from Jacobean to classical revival, a very private beach, old families not merely rich but entirely accustomed to it-this is the special world about which Ethan Ayer writes. His book is a portfolio of vignettes: the well-bred old snobs, the new, vulgar rich, the wealthy young weaklings and, behind all these, the pompous and romantic servants...