Word: gated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the commotion in San Francisco harbor last week as the Dollar liner President Pierce glided in through the Golden Gate from the Orient. Whistles screamed. Bands blared. Flags flew. Warped into Pier 44, she was quickly boarded by octogenarian Shipowner Robert Dollar who hurried about looking for an erect, spare, tropic-tanned man. He found him on deck, carrying a tightly rolled silk umbrella, and gave him a tremendous handshake which carried with it the welcome of the whole U.S. The browned voyager was none other than Henry Lewis Stimson, returning from the post of Governor-General...
...Foch last week−and the few speeches of French statesmen were almost incredibly Spartan and brief−perhaps the most significant was uttered by a certain Mile. Breton, telephone operator to Foch from 1924 until last week. As she came to sit at her little switchboard, in the gate keeper's lodge of the Marshal's residence, Mile. Breton said...
Page one carries the announcement of Harvard's free loan of the Stadium for the game with Stanford year after next. In making this loan Harvard has gone considerably beyond the usual limits of intercollegiate generosity. On the financial side it means the sacrifice of her share of gate receipts that will mount well up into the hundred thousands. And as Dartmouth usually counts on the Harvard game as by far her largest source of athletic revenue, the additional income from the Stanford game will mean a great deal in the further development of athletics at Dartmouth...
...stadium has been granted to Dartmouth and Stanford for their football game on November 28, 1931, it was announced yesterday by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics at Harvard. Harvard will take no part of the gate receipts, and has offered its entire staff of ushers and ticket takers for service at the game...
...Yard he must substitute references to the lily fields of Bermuda and the warmth of the surf at Waikiki, to the blooming of the tulips in the Bois de Boulogne and the peach trees in Georgia, to the sunrises on Mt. Washington and the sunsets in the Golden Gate, and perhaps as well for if space can be conquered, why should time be a barrier? to the midnight sun at the North Cape. These by no means exhaust his opportunities; he has a quantity of other excursions to make before getting back to the familiar Massachusetts dews and damps. They...