Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seniors swamped the H.A.A. ticket office yesterday in a record crowd for an opening football game, to pick up their free tickets for Saturday's Harvard-Ohio U. game...
...failed to appear. He had been seized by the Germans, and they had squeezed out of him the word of the appointment with Navarre. There were six Gestapo men in the station looking for the spymaster. But Navarre, scenting the new wind, coolly joined a long line of ticket buyers, stood on a crowded platform reading a newspaper, then joined a crowd leaving a train, and got out of the station, scot-free. Once he was saved from capture when a prolonged session in a dentist's office made him 15 minutes late for a rendezvous which the Gestapo...
Under the University's new program, each student is entitled to one free ticket on Presentation of his bursar's card. He is also permited to present up to three bursar's cards of classmates and to purchase an extra ticket for each card...
...jewelry, children's wear, readymade clothes, furs and linens, and, presumably, elegant footwear. The Soviet consumer, promised great things-clothes that fit, machines that work-if only he will pitch in for "two or three years," will also find lunchrooms, restaurants, buffets, post offices, savings-bank branches, theater-ticket offices, and rest rooms for mothers and children in Upper Row. It sounded very much like capitalistic Macy's in New York, except that it will all be state run, of course, by a giant outfit called GUM (Government Universal Stores...
...voluptuous Matisse nude and a light-as-air Degas dancer; less representational studies like Constantin Brancusi's shining, vertical Bird in Space and his monolithic marble Fish, which for all its solidity conveys a feeling of watery motion. The high quality of the show has helped keep the ticket-takers near the big glass doors busy all summer. Last week they were checking in more than 1,000 paying customers a day at 60? a head. Most of the visitors made straight for the sculpture garden...