Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite its favorable organization and the happy exception of the Poskauzer report, the Student Council still spends the great majority of its time on small, daily services to the undergraduates. Investigations and reports on instruction, housing, advising, and scholarships continue to take a back seat to football movies, ticket exchanges, activities bulletins, and charity collections. Just how the Council can fulfill its secondary, social service function, without detriment to its primary, advisory function, and how it should be organized to do this, will be discussed in tomorrow's editorial...
...moviegoer who has finally laid his hands on a ticket goes to the theater at least an hour ahead of showtime and waits in a small side-room where a two-or three-piece band plays for dancing. At a buffet counter he can buy tea, Sitro (lemon pop) and buterbrody (sandwiches)-but no popcorn. There are racks of newspapers and magazines, shelves of books The walls are lined with photo exhibits Instead of the dance band, the smallest theaters offer only a radio...
...office windows, millions of petitions and postcards flooded the land for forwarding to Congress. The clamor echoed on the radio and in the press. To a public that wants to pay less for its entertainment, the trailer offered this catchline: "You have just paid 20% more for your ticket because of the federal nuisance...
...case of out-of-state cars the owner can not be sought by the Court or police until he appears with his ticket...
...Suddenly Vag sat bolt upright. How could he have been day-dreaming? The specter of examination welled up in his imagination in all its horror. The smug fat text and the cruel purple type on the assignment sheet seemed to be deriding him with silent mockery. Vag tore the ticket stubs to shreds, clenched his teeth, and read...