Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above one of the most traversed pathways into the Yard, there is engraved on the gate archway "Enter to Grow in Wisdom." After aweing busloads of professional sightseers with this sentiment for decades, the University has now turned its back on growth, or at least, nocturnal growth. The gate and its fellows, as you know if you intend to pass the coming mid-term examinations, are locked promptly at 8 p.m. And so, with misgivings we continue what bids to become an editorial crusade: we request once more that the gates be unlocked until midnight...
...around the tracks, objected, but his complaints found few supporters: hardly a deputy wanted to go on record as opposed to worthy Winter Help. No sooner was the 10% tax enacted when Italians began deserting the races. Many started betting among themselves. Without revenues from track betting and gate receipts, the government-controlled agency that puts up prize money announced that it could no longer guarantee purses. Some owners were offering horses to slaughterhouses at knockdown prices. The tracks were forced to shut down and more than 50,000 trainers, jockeys, grooms and stableboys were thrown out of work, might...
...Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...
...Alice or a Peter Pan? Most adults are apt to niddy nod at the idea. But anyhow, he will obviously be around for a while. Enid Blyton has just had her ninth Noddy novel published, and from her tidy house with its black cocker spaniel sitting at the gate, there is no telling how many more words will come. "Once I get started," says she blithely, "I've just got to go on and on. Oh, I love...
...Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...