Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow up and poison gases would be released. Planeloads of Plasma. An emergency hospital was set up in the City Hall as the Red Cross, Salvation Army, doctors, nurses, Texas Rangers with pearl-handled revolvers, planeloads of plasma and mobile kitchens began to arrive. The windowless high school gymnasium was swept clean-it would do for a morgue while the embalmers worked for hours, foot-deep in blood in the McGar garage. Now & again, they turned their backs on the corpses and slugged down hot coffee...
William C. Barnard, Associated Press staff writer, described how scores of bodies are stacked on benches and tables in a mid-town garage and in a nearby high school gymnasium...
...freshman at 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...
...biggest prize in Eastern wrestling comes up today and tomorrow when this section's 15 top wrestling teams get together for the Intercollegiate Championships. With the Bulldog playing host in his Payne-Whitney gymnasium lair in New Haven, an expected total of 120 entries from the members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association will decide among themselves which eight men are the best...
This sombre note led Bingham to talk about seating problems generally. "We have accomodations for 2,400 spectators in the gymnasium," he said, "but ever since the Cocoanut Grove fire we've been limited to admitting only 1,600 because of the size and number of the exits. This year, only half the stands have been set up for each game...