Word: gately
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...questions of the Advocate by the following three: Why was the stairway so constructed that it runs through all the dirty part of the tower? Why will men wish to do just what they are forbidden to do? Why could not some waiters be detailed to take the "gate-money" and to keep general peace up in the tower during the visiting hours...
...next Saturday they play the University of New York team. We ask all members of the university to purchase a ticket to the game, and if possible encourage the team by their presence. The team is in need of money, and they especially wish that a large amount of gate money be taken, to pay the expenses of the visiting club. Our team won for us three games last fall, and in return for this they were obliged to pay a large share of their expenses to New York. A deficiency in our boating and base-ball interests is soon...
...Hell Gate is to be illuminated by electric lights...
...Metropolitan Club says that there is more money in college games than with league games, and it does not propose to be bulldozed by the latter. The Metropolitans also refuse to give league clubs guarantee of $100 or half the gate receipts...
...propounded by an E. C. [esteemed contemporary] for solution by the class in Freshman Physics : What velocity must a locomotive have to pick up a deaf man walking on the track and fling him so high that six cars pass before he comes down? A mother standing at the gate calls to her boy who is exactly sixty-eight feet distant. It takes two minutes and twenty-two seconds for the sound to reach him. - Find from this the velocity with which a woman's voice travels. A woman arrives at the depot three minutes ahead of train time...