Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Ohio, he was a political nobody-a bookkeeper who, in 1936, had slipped in as state auditor on the tail gate of the Roosevelt bandwagon. He had almost no backing from the regular Democratic organization. He did have a following of state employees, auditors and examiners, and he rarely if ever forgot a name or a face. He had organized and supported a Columbus softball team named "Ferguson's Auditors," and annually he mailed out 150,000 Christmas cards bearing photographs of his handsome wife and their growing family of eight children...
Yale crowds for the first four games total 74,000 for this year, while last year gate figures were 124,000 for four games. Princeton attendance has gone up from last fall's 75,500 to 75,990 this year...
...Harvard side, part of section 36 and all of 37 still remain for gate sales. As a result of the large return from Cornell, a better selection is offered on the visitors' side...
...even more promising instrument is a special version of the ancient magnetic compass. Ordinary magnetic compasses are of little use in the far north. Their needles do not swing normally, but often try to point almost directly downward toward the magnetic pole a few hundred miles away. The "flux-gate" compass, which uses coils instead of needles, eliminates the downward pull and shows only the small horizontal pull toward the magnetic pole. The compass does not point north, of course. Since the magnetic pole is many miles south of the geographical North Pole, the compass often points almost south...
...first test at 4 p.m. this afternoon in the University handicaps. On the basis of today's race, Mikkola will pick twelve men each for his varsity and freshman teams for next week's initial Holy Cross-Rhode Island meet. The race will be from the main Soldiers Field gate to the Police Station--between two and three miles...