Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rates on corsages and theater tickets will serve as additional enticement for Jubilee patrons on the dance weekend All Jubilee ticket holders will be able to obtain entrance to the HDC production of "June and the Paycock" at a special reduced price...
...your article [TIME, April 7] about Mr. Pentecost's Hoppi-copter, you say that gliders are "only half the ticket" in fulfilling man's desire to fly like birds. You may be right- but there are over 1,000 sailplane and glider pilots in America who, in order to forgive you this grave error, must assume that your Writer (poor man) probably has never experienced the thrill of "motorless flight." These pilots will tell you that there can never be a motor-powered craft that will replace the sailplane and glider as aids in achievement of the mortal...
Murray, 42, an ex-Detroit reporter of Scotch-Irish-English-Dutch descent, was swept into his unpaid office in 1941 on a clean-out-the-Reds ticket. During the war, when few unions changed their leadership, there were only muffled rumblings of dissent, chiefly from left-wingers. But this year, with Murray coming up for renomination or rejection in June, volley and thunder have come at him from right as well as left...
...only two of the 13 Executive Board members still solidly behind him, it looked as if Milt Murray were well on the way out. The opposition was lining up behind closemouthed, stubborn Sam Eubanks, the Guild's executive vice president who was elected on the Murray Red-hating ticket, but fell out with Murray on administrative matters and now seldom speaks...
...Institute, which has no connection with Princeton University but is always confused with it, was founded 17 years ago with a $5,000,000 gift by the department store Bambergers. A school for post-postgraduates, it demands a Ph.D. as a ticket of admission, charges no tuition, grants no degrees...