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Word: gymnasium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Princetonian and the Princeton Tiger are jointly sponsoring a dance tonight before the Harvard game. Tickets for the dance, which is to be held in the Princeton gymnasium, can be bought in Princeton. A large turnout, with match from here included, is expected by the dance committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dance at Princeton | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...nine riotous years the late Huey Long's Louisiana State University seemed the answer to a collegian's dream. Upon his students the Kingfish lavished two luxurious athletic stadia, a huge gymnasium, a mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kickback | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...cavalry general stationed in Berlin, he grew up there, got the best schooling to be had in Germany, at the Französisches Gymnasium of Berlin, and in 1900, aged 19, became a lieutenant in the Royal Elizabeth Guard Grenadiers. The Grenadiers wore corsets and led a gay social life; Lieutenant Brauchitsch, whose nature was somewhat more vigorous, persuaded his father to get him transferred to an artillery regiment. By 1914 he had risen to the rank of captain. Throughout the four years of World War I he remained a General Staff officer, saw no fighting. In 1918 he shared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Blitzkrieger | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Married. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, trainer of Babe Ruth and Gene Sarazen, operator of a Manhattan gymnasium, where he molds Paul Whiteman and other rotund celebrities into prettier shapes; and Mrs. Ethel Colten; both for the second time; in South Bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Behind the new Littauer School of Public Administration are the Law School buildings, and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford Street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEOGRAPHY OF HARVARD PUZZLES TYROS | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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