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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Operating on the same basis as the undergraduate dining halls, the Union will serve meals at a flat rate of $9.50 per week, with the usual ticket rate of 40 cents for breakfast, 60 cents for luncheon, and 80 cents for dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grad Students to Eat at Union; 'Cliffe Will Erect New Dormitory | 11/9/1945 | See Source »

...nothing else could, the imperial homage to MacArthur told the people that Japan was truly beaten. A railway ticket-seller, when he heard the news, dropped his rice bowl, laid his head on the counter and wept. He said: "My heart is frozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Frozen Heart | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...good actor, he played his first big role in knee-deep mud at Churchill Downs, ploughed theatrically from last to first to win the 1918 Kentucky Derby. Suddenly the silence of amazement was split by a colored boy waving his $2 ticket (worth $61.20) and shrieking: "'Ster-minator." After that Exterminator was known to millions by his right name-as well as by his nicknames, which ranged from Hatrack to Old Slim to Poison to Old Bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Galloping Hatraclc | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Football-tickets--for the Tufts game this Saturday and all other games will be available before game time at Soldiers Field at $1,00 a ticket, including tax, the H.A.A. announced this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. to Charge $1 For Tufts Grid Tickets | 10/2/1945 | See Source »

Like those of many great theatrical contemporaries, Oliver Morosco's name still blazes from the marquee of a Broadway theater. As playgoers queued up there last week for tickets to The Voice of the Turtle, the man whose name was on every ticket lay in a Los Angeles morgue. Morosco had died at 69 under the wheels of a streetcar in the city where he first made good. He was dressed in a threadbare suit. In his pocket was eight cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Top Slander | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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