Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather with the problem of cramming a mass of paying spectators into the stands. These institution must ponder over the expense of maintaining physical education scholarships, supplying make-work jobs promising quarterbacks, and keeping the alumni with successful coaches. In addition they must worry whether or not the football gate receipts will cover single the expense of maintaining their athletic plants...
...some letters from football-minded graduates, the Corporation has scarcely heard of these problems in connection with the University. Through a rigid policy of keeping athletics in its proper place, the University has allowed itself the relative pleasure of concentrating on bolts and girders instead of crowds and gate receipts...
...quite so sure the course was swell. A ski tip caught one of the flag-decked course markers. She spun around, tumbled on her side. Then, to the cheers of the crowd, she bounced up, took five quick climbing steps to make sure she was through the "gate," and set off hell-for-leather for the finish. The spill had cost her at least three precious seconds, but when the first heat results were compiled, Andy was in fourth place. Dave, his brows puckered with worry, left Andy alone: "She knows she's behind, and she knows...
...been clamoring for a formal New England League with Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth playing B.U., B.C., and Holy Cross. There would be little room at present for all of these schools on all-Ivy schedules and furthermore the Ivy policy itself would probably appear too sugar-coated for these gate-receipt, publicity conscious colleges...
...took off her skis and began a laborious trek, often hip-deep in snow,* down the 1,000-meter course. At each of the 59 "gates," the flag-decked poles marking the obligatory turning points, Andy paused and made mental calculations. She carefully gauged each hillock and bump, guessed at her racing speed, and mentally mapped a line of descent to follow. At the bottom she rested, then trudged back up the course, stopping again at each gate to review and correct her calculations. She was adding her own figuring to the slalom racer's standard formula...