Word: gym
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hackett, who knows that "a good school is a band of devoted, capable teachers," is offering prospective teachers a bonus: homes for their families in a new faculty apartment house on the school site. Architects' plans call for an ultramodern, glass-&-concrete schoolhouse, gym, auditorium and chapel. Right now the World School consists of one flagpole...
...morning, the people left in Texas City tried to count their dead. There were 200 bodies in the gym. They lay in blanketed rows, each body tagged with a yellow identification slip.* The smell of smoke and blood hung thick over relatives bending to look at the tags. Occasionally someone whimpered, or fainted, or turned woodenly and walked out. One young woman begged to be admitted out of turn to find her young husband. "We only been married a month," she explained. Another in slacks stepped challengingly up to a guard. "He ain't here," she snapped. Still another...
...three other stories one concerns a frustrated pianist, and another a frustrated man who just sits in a cafe. The remaining story, by Miss Miriam Ginsberg, it is a pleasure to report, is humorous, and despite the very mild nature of its wit, her account of a girl's gym class seems practically uproarious when compared with the morose material which surrounds...
...Philadelphia's little La Salle College. Since La Salle has no pool, he does his swimming at the Turners' Club, a gymnasium in Philadelphia's German section. To help himself through La Salle (he wants to be a dentist) Verdeur stokes the furnace at the gym. The Turners' pool is an antiquated 18-by-20-yard tub with no gutters; when Joe gets to thrashing around in it, the sidewash kicks up into ocean-sized waves...
Plagued by lack of practice space and inexperience in every position, the coach has had to make assignments on the scanty evidence of a couple of weeks of training in the Indoor Athletic Building gym...