Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within 30 minutes, another tense battle was going on-this time a volleyball match-and the scene might have been more appropriate to a college gymnasium than to a spot 90 miles from Jap bases...
...Congregationalist, his wife as an Episcopalian. For the past twelve years they have been active members of the First Community Church (with members representing 27 sects) in Grandview Heights, a Columbus suburb. They attend services faithfully, have refused a regular pew, sometimes perch on chairs in the adjoining gymnasium when the church auditorium is crowded. The Governor has been a member of the Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and an usher. Mrs. Bricker is active in the Women's Guild, has also been chairman of the Weekday School of Religion...
...entered the service of the King of Siam, that progressive monarch had 9,000 women in his harem. They lived in a small city adjoining his palace. In the center was a garden and artificial lake, where the princesses bathed and picked water lilies. There was a theater, a gymnasium, a temple where Anna Leonowens taught English. There were blacksmith shops, slave quarters, barracks for the amazon guards. King Mongkut and a few priests were the only men allowed inside its high stone walls...
...hour of 5 a.m. He lived with his close personal friend and naval aide, Commander Harry Butcher, peacetime CBS vice president, and his orderly, Sergeant "Micky" McKeogh, onetime bellboy at New York's Plaza Hotel, in an unpretentious eight-room cottage near headquarters. One room was full of gymnasium paraphernalia, which the general studiously avoided except upon rare occasions when he took an exasperated belt, in passing, out of the punching...
Before some 75 people in the Indoor Athletic Gymnasium last night, Company H of the V-12 Unit overcame an 11-point last period deficit to swamp Dunster House, 46-39, in the play-off game of the '43-'44 intramural basketball season...