Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before 45,000 cheering Sudetens in the market square, bespectacled, 40-year-old Führer Henlein, onetime gymnasium instructor whose figure is now assuming Göring-like proportions, mounted a black-draped podium and addressed the coffins, covered with red flags bearing the SdP insignia of the Sudetendeutsch Partei. "Fatal bullets struck you, even though you were innocent," he cried. "May your sacrifice be a guiding sign for us." Throaty shouts of "Seig Heil" punctuated the speech of Henlein's stooge, Deputy Karl Hermann Frank, as he defiantly used words from the forbidden Nazi Horst Wessel hymn...
...look strange to us for a while to see our athletes attired in something closely resembling underwear," Miss Mildred Madden observes shyly in the current issue of the Radcliffe News, but her article goes on to give whole-hearted endorsement to the new gymnasium outfit to be put into effect next fall...
...build much further without the cornerstone," said one of the foremen, explaining it was at the base of the granite facing. However, 90 men working for the last two months have not been waiting for the cornerstone ceremonies. In the deep excavation on the site of the old Hemenway Gymnasium, the concrete foundations have already risen well above the ground...
...recent collection for the new gymnasium has tightened purse strings, but this plan involves only pledging, the actual payment not to come until February...
...March, 1913, a movement was started to raise funds for the erection of a new gymnasium, and several thousand dollars have been since pledged by undergraduates...