Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage director and a driver, Impresario Wagner's operatic bus fumed out of Manhattan on the first lap of a 5,000-mile run which will take it as far south as Birmingham, Ala., as far north as Pittsfield, Mass. By Friday, when it hit the Lafayette College gymnasium at Easton, Pa., Metropolitan Singers Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan and John Gurney were complaining of the Cuban cigars smoked by fat Conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek in the back seat. But the 550-odd college students who jammed Easton's gymnasium thought the bus-toted Barber was swell, spent ten minutes...
Among these vital targets, said Berlin officials, were the house of the Union of German Engineers, which has given the world many a scientific blessing; the Academy of Art, where the decadence has supposedly been distilled from modern painting; a home for aged Jews; the innocent Brandenburg Gate; a gymnasium; a bed of roses in the garden of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels...
...white building which may be seen from the subway "cheesebox" to the north is the Littauer Center, of the School of Public Administration. Behind it are the Law School and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford Street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories, and beyond it is the University Museum, home of the famed glass flowers...
Raymond Huff proceeded to make WPA history, putting up school buildings at less than contract cost. Using 300 laborers and only four skilled tradesmen (a supervisor, electrician, plumber, concrete finisher), he built an $800,000 (architect's estimate) plant-new high school, gymnasium, agricultural building and remodeled junior high-for $550,000. His students carved, pegged, built all the furniture, tanned leather for office chairs, wove rawhide for classroom chairs, hammered hinges, lamps and other hardware from scrap iron, wove mohair rugs and draperies...
Most of Artist Despujols' pupils are Fontainebleau alumni. Instead of a palace for their studio, they have a roomy, north-lighted barn which last year was Gull Hill School's stable, next year will be its gymnasium. Instead of Paris they have Provincetown. Artist Despujols looks at Cape Cod's scrub pines, sand dunes and squat frame houses with a cheerful eye. Says he: "It is not the Isle de France but it is equally paintable...