Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sinai Temple's Forum (an "ungraded university") began 29 years ago when the synagogue's community director, young Samuel Disraeli Schwartz, intruded on a basketball game in the gymnasium to ask if anyone wanted to hear a lecture. Forty-two people did. Now lectures are held each Monday during the fall and winter with audiences from 1,800 to 3,500. Cost: 15 programs for $5. Audiences are about half Jewish, half Gentile. Slight, greying Director Schwartz still runs the Forum, has made it pay its way for the past 20 years. This year's program includes...
Beginnings. Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich in 1900, the son of a Catholic schoolteacher. At 15, Heinrich orated with high-pitched spirit against Social Democrats and Communists, and the schoolmaster of his Gymnasium told him: "You should be a Government Minister." His father told him that he was a potential criminal...
...rugged three-point physical fitness program to prepare Naval Officers for the rigors of battle and the hardships of submersion commenced this week at the Harvard gymnasium under the direction of the NTS (Communications) Regimental Officer, Lt. j.g.) A. X. O'Connor...
...Navy chaplains were getting toughening-up training, too. At Virginia's College of William & Mary (Williamsburg) they hiked, worked in the gymnasium between classes. At the course's climax they dived through burning oil in the swimming pool, pushed ahead under water, came up with arms thrashing, finally made it into flame-free water and clambered out. For men who had just left school or pastorate, it was a rugged business...
...atmosphere redolent of honest sweat 180 palm-powdered athletes, clothed in bathing trunks, tennis flannels, track shorts and acrobats' tights, flipped around the gymnasium of Manhattan's West Side Y.M.C.A. like desperate fish. They were top-rung U.S. gymnasts competing in one of the oldest and least publicized of national tournaments: the 58th annual amateur U.S. gymnastic championships...