Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats, convened in the Fulton courthouse, was Gene Milligan, son of Pendergast-busting U. S. District Attorney Maurice M. Milligan. Keynoter: U. S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Liberal-Independents, meeting in the chapel, heard Socialist Professor Maynard Krueger. Battle broke out among the Republicans, housed in the gymnasium, when Missouri U.'s Hirst Mendenhall, a cousin of Herbert Hoover, tried to get elected convention chairman, was defeated by Westminster's John Stone. Their keynoter was former Missouri Governor Arthur M. Hyde...
After the races had been run in a downpour, the rest of the events, the jumps, pole vault, discus, and shot put, were moved into the gymnasium, which impeded record-breaking performance...
Built in the shape of an H, 2,500-bed Charity contains separate wings for Negroes and whites, luxurious dormitories, a gymnasium for interns, a solarium for doctors, a drug-manufacturing department, laundries, a printing shop. Each ward, a complete unit with special treatment rooms, bathrooms, doctor's office, nurses' cage and pantry, contains only twelve beds. The 50 operating rooms and delivery rooms are paved and walled in soft blue tile, contain unique, explosion-proof operating lamps which Dr. D'Aunoy designed. He also planned a pneumatic tube system between operating rooms and pathology department...
...exclusive Peers' School would have required whole battalions of police to line the streets. The Imperial Household totted up the cost, found it would be cheaper to build a new schoolhouse next to the Palace grounds. They did-complete with twelve classrooms, auditorium, laboratories, music hall, handicraft room, gymnasium, library, offices, private dining and sitting rooms for the august youngster. This week for the first time, the son of the son of the Sun, with shining morn ing face, romped across the Palace grounds, across one public street, to school. On rainy days he will ride...
Alhambra, a Los Angeles suburb, is an ordinary U. S. town. Girl students in its high school, like those in many another, have to attend gymnasium classes and afterwards take a shower bath. Two months ago Alhambra's high-school girls moved into a new building, where they had to undress and shower in a big common shower room. This seemed all right to most of them. But not to tall, moon-faced Joan Aveline Lawrence, 16. After one horrid ordeal, Joan refused to shower again in public even if they flunked...