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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contact with Harvard. Transformations like that in the Yale Bowl six weeks ago are the only visible and memorable representation of current Harvard life to many unfamiliar with general University advance. There seems to be no reason why Harvard should not have accommodations for the graduates who flood the ticket office with applications in losing seasons as well as in winning ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STADIUM AGAIN | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...upon the most common of all human pastimes, Talking, it appeared to Milton ("Dance Marathon") Crandall that the purpose of this sport was to see who could talk the longest. Accordingly he announced a "noun and verb rodeo, the world's championship gab-fest," and set up a ticket-taker at the gate of an armory in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gab Fest | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

When a prisoner's term has been served, he gets a $12 suit of clothes, a railroad ticket and $10, along with the words: "Make good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sing Sing | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...offered free to the public under the auspices of the Lowell Institute. These lectures will be given in Huntington Rall, 491 Boylston Street at 5 o'clock. The doors will open at 4.30 o'clock and will close promptly at 5 o'clock at each lecture. will closer Tickets may be secured by applying by mail to the curator of the Lowell Institute at 491 Boylston Street. Boston; stamped, addressed envelope for each ticket desired must be enclosed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR SACHS TO GIVE EIGHT LOWELL LECTURES | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan. In 1921 Mr. Thayer was in Paris. It is related that he, poor, got to Europe by traveling steerage with a silk hat and no ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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