Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While attending the University of Chicago, Mather managed to spend his weekends, holidays, and week vacations working sometimes as a shoe salesman in the basement of Marshall Field and Company, a ticket seller for the Michigan Central Railroad, and as an office boy in the South Chicago Mills of the Illinois Steel Corporation. "My interest in geology was started by a high school teacher who taught physiography and took us on field trips. By the time I entered the University of Chicago, I was intensely interested in geology...
...State Room holds 150 couples, and half the tickets, which cost $2.50 per couple, have been sold to far to Commuters. Results of ticket sales at Radcliffe have not been reported, however, and Alch believes that House sales will attract at least 30 additional couples...
...addition, several snowed-in automobiles that could not be removed have been ticketed for over-parking. The Public Works Department combined with the police to ticket or tow away those autos that were interfering with the removal of snow from city streets...
...good friends equipped themselves with work clothes, picks, shovels and roadblocks, spent an industrious evening digging a ten-foot hole in a midtown Manhattan street without being caught. Another time he attached an artificial hand to his sleeve, took a trip through the Holland Tunnel. After fastening his toll ticket between the plaster fingers, he whizzed by the collection station, left both ticket and hand in the grasp of a horrified attendant. In addition, he has diverted himself by planting fake pearls in oysters, coaching South Sea Island native youngsters in fantastic Troy-devised folk tales to be retold...
...game which involved the only two major unbeaten teams in the nation. The game was played in Pittsburgh's Duquesne Gardens (a privately owned arena not connected with the school) and was a 5,600 sellout. Duquesne had to turn back 25,000 ticket requests; St. Bonaventure claimed it could have sold 5,000 tickets around Olean...