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Word: gym (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the non-swimmers who are still non-swimming, we are now exercising out on the grass and cinders about Soldiers Field. The gym is a fine building, but it lacks sunlight and grass, two things we who have done our basic in sandy camps or bivouacked in rainy weather appreciate greatly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMY P-1's CORNER | 5/2/1944 | See Source »

...walks of life, have one thing in common: a passion for planes. Their chief is glamorous, dashing Jacqueline Cochran, ex-beauty shop operator, wife of Promoter Floyd Odium. Mrs. Love, ex-test pilot, is now a WASP executive officer. Among WASPs at Romulus (Mich.) Army Air Field: an ex-gym teacher, an ex-Broadway dancer, an ex-Hollywood hat designer. WASP Hazel Ying Lee once flew with the Chinese Army. They are young (18½-35), but Paula Loop, ex-schoolma'am, thinks that the uncertain hours and nervous strain age them fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Saved from Official Fate | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Naval schedules, tensing up on their shots, and George Connor were the causes to which Coach Floyd Stahl attributed Harvard's court beating administered by Holy Cross. The last and probably, the second of these three factors will be eliminated in the M. I. T. game at their gym tomorrow night. M. I. T., while good, is no Holy Cross, which should take off the tension and, of course, they do not have Connor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOPSTERS WILL FACE M.I.T. AFTER HOLY CROSS SETBACK | 1/11/1944 | See Source »

Sports viewsreel: The new, lengthened gym period has promoted several good basketball games, and in the assorted melees several Company B men have shown flashes of form which indicate considerable experience...

Author: By Ens. GUY Osborn, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 1/11/1944 | See Source »

Note to lots of people who have wondered: Joe (ISpellMyNameinCode) Prychodzin pronounces it "Sicodgin" and would have you do likewise. . .Things one wonders about while being scooped: What is the choice One who watches Dog in its daily trek back from the gym. . .you know, the doll who frames herself in the store window, fotches a comely smile while the boys hold Rossi in ranks...

Author: By Ens. W.g.osborn, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 12/14/1943 | See Source »

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