Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleeves and stepped up the training program, saw to it that Melody pored over the word slips for at least an hour each night, upped it to three hours as the Bee buzzed nearer. ¶as in Deciduous. When the Big Test came in Washington's Commerce Department auditorium one day last week, Melody felt that she was as ready as she would ever be. But so did 62 other crack young (aged 12-14) spellers, the pick of some 5,000,000 school kids from all over the U.S. And for the first time in Bee history...
...Fire. Once inside, however, there were 52 more steps to be negotiated. To spare the old man's pride and health together, the city fathers of Aachen had herded the 300 invited guests into the auditorium ahead of Sir Winston, then, discreetly sealing'the staircase from prying eyes, had the great guest carried up by four city firemen...
...Cave. This week in Rangoon, 500 monks chanted through the last of 1,600 hours of reciting aloud the 14,804 pages of the Tipitakas,† the Buddhist scriptures. They sat in a "cave"-a vast jumble of rough boulders on the outside, and a blue, gold and scarlet auditorium within (capacity: 15,000), which was built by Burma's devout Premier U Nu to house the Sixth Buddhist World Council (TIME, June 7, 1954). The council has been going on for two years in this facsimile of a real cave (where the first council was held...
...cavernous Minneapolis Auditorium one day last week, the 766 delegates to the Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Church, representing more than 9,000,000 Methodists, stood up and applauded. Reason for their enthusiasm: the convention's solution of the most indigestible problem with which they had been faced. The problem: what to do about the Methodists' Central Jurisdiction, a nongeographical division which contains only Negroes, and thus represents a sort of segregation within the church. The solution: a constitutional amendment which will allow the Central Jurisdiction to be dissolved gradually. The conference also created a commission...
Trevor Gardner, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force who recently resigned in protest against official policy, will give the main address at a free meeting of the Law School Forum on "Guided Missiles" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Langdell North Middle Auditorium...