Word: gym
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other diversions include movies in the gym, which now boasts of movietone equipment. These picture shows are presented tri-weekly. Instead of eating the evening meal in the mess hall, a cadet may receive permission to dine at the Hotel Thayer, on invitation, or he may go on picnic parties to Delafield Pond...
According to Coach Ulen, the first month will be devoted to work on the gym floor, with occasional practice sessions in the new pool. This preliminary gym work, which is a preseason training that is in use in all the large colleges today, will be under the joint supervision of Coach Ulen and N. W. Fradd, director of the building...
Joseph La Scalza, 21-year-old 110-lb. son of a Philadelphia carpenter with ten children, learned to be a floor-finisher but did not like the work. Four years ago he got a job sweeping out Jimmy Coster's gym in Philadelphia. He started to fight, changed his name to Midget Wolgast. Last week in Madison Square Garden he climbed into a ring and sat down facing a little Negro laconically known as Black Bill, the other finalist in a tournament conducted to decide the flyweight championship of New York and Philadelphia...
...wearing a silk bathrobe ornamented with nude women and nymphs, then dropped the bathrobe. Attired in shorts and boxing shoes he boxed before a gallery of debutantes with Tommy Loughran, once light-heavyweight champion of the world, who wore the proper costume for boxers in training-a headguard and gym tights. Loughran refrained from knocking Cromwell out during the bout, at the end of which Cromwell was given the decision, by prearrangement...