Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admit the first of the 3,000 shipyard workers it was built to house-75% single men, 25% married men who live there on weekdays because home is too far away, or will be after Dec. 1 gas rationing. Its 69 frame buildings, community center, cafeteria (seating 900), gymnasium-auditorium (capacity 1,350) are spread over eleven city blocks all within rifle shot of three big shipyards-California, Bethlehem and Consolidated-so that its tenants can walk to work...
...Charlie Wilson is muscular ruddy, carries his six-foot frame like an infantry major. He likes golf, deep-sea fishing, has seldom missed a big prize fight and has taken on some pretty good men himself in gymnasium rings. But mostly he just works...
...Thus on January 10, 1916 the Harvard Regiment was formed. The original unit was drawn up purely on a voluntary basis, and bayonets, belts, and rifles "of the 1898 Springfield model" were provided by the government. Drills were held outdoors until winter necessitated the use of the old Hemingway Gymnasium and the baseball cage. With the inauguration of the official ROTC, a half-course known as Military Science and Tactics, training at Harvard went on a more official basis with commission in the reserve awaiting those who had satisfactory records...
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...
There were five Sunday services (including the 8 a.m. Golfers' Service). There were daily radio programs presented by members of the church, a gymnasium, a Drama Workshop, a cafeteria, a day nursery, a kindergarten; a Children's Church in which children act as deacons, choir, ushers; a music library; a complete service for brides ($5 for 25 guests in the chapel; $50 for a big church wedding.) A College of Life offered instruction in foreign languages, piano playing, elocution, world affairs, contract bridge, the rumba...