Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panel which can represent student opinion to the Deans and do the job thoroughly. This can be fairly unattractive work; it involves the long and unglamorous writing of reports on tutorial, or scholarships, or the house system. It means the transference of the Council's service functions--the football ticket exchanges or week-end ride swapping or activities bulletins--to other organizations. But it is the kind of work in which the Council has done, and can do, the most good for the College...
Some summer theaters make their greatest profits not from ticket sales, but from apprentice fees. Stage-struck youngsters with ingratiating smiles and a paucity of acting ability will do almost anything to appear on a stage even to the extent of paying cash to a slightly shadowy producer. The producer claims to teach the smiling youth to act; usually the aspiring actor or actress will end up sweeping the stage before performances...
...Tickets for the two dances will go on sale tonight in the Union, with a 20 percent discount on flowers provided with each ticket. Seven dollars will be the fee for a ticket for two to both dances...
...made it a one-man airline, and he made it pay. Captain Eddie-as he is known around the Eastern system-flew 200,000 miles during his first year as president. He not only poked his nose into every airplane, every ticket office, every hangar and every repair shop, but, in time, left an embodiment of himself in all of them through a series of posters. These bear a picture of him, the words "Captain Eddie Says:"-and various Rickenbacker-ish homilies on the value of thrift, safety and patriotism. Some of his employees refer to the poster picture...
...Cafe on Main Street, and owner of the local telephone exchange, took a dim view of such talk: his wife was running for mayor, his sister-in-law and one of his employees were running for the town board. "They say they're running on a nonpartisan ticket," said Altman, "but, if I know my wife, it will be the labor party. Believe me, we men will really know what labor is if she gets in." Last week the town's voters went to the polls, by a 6-to-1majority voted the five Hope housewives into office...