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Word: gateways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Isthmian Drive. Even more nastiness was in store for the Russians-especially in the Karelian Isthmus, historic gateway into Finland and the one Alexander I stormed with 17,000 men in 1808. Not only were roads, bridges and buildings mined-even a new bicycle left leaning against a fence was a detonator-but the Finns had utilized the geographical peculiarities of their country shrewdly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Such Nastiness | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...more entrants to the CRIMSON'S Gateway to Harvard contest signified competitive intentions at a late hour last night. The new starlets are Eileen Coleman of Brookline' and Rennic Smith of Revere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two More Majorettes Sign Up in Crimson Competition | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...game maneuvers Laurence H. Waterman '40 and Fred H. Krech '40, masquerading as contestants in the Gateway to Harvard competition, allowed themselves to be driven off the field by a "Jawn Harvard" brandishing an ancient blunderbuss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Puts on Snappy Show for Indian Game | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Following a growing cry for "sex in the band," the CRIMSON this morning announces a competition for aspiring Drum Majorettes to come from near and far. Entrants to the "Gateway to Harvard" contest will be judged early next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRUM MAJORETTES FOR BAND WILL BE JUDGED BY CRIMSON | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

...Finland, a frontier of such numberless lakes, forests and marshes that if Russia should choose to strike with mechanized forces these would have to roll directly up from Leningrad into the narrow, flat Finnish terrain between the Gulf and Lake Laatokka, Europe's largest lake. On this strategic gateway Finland has massed her only heavy fortifications, concrete pillbox forts and tank traps which Finnish soldiers last week worked furiously to strengthen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Active Neutrality! | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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