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Word: gymnasium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked as if some of Joe's dreams might come true. Dallas was at last building a big new school combining Edison and Juarez, complete with gymnasium, dining room and auditorium. When it is finished, he will have room for more students than ever before. "Then," says Joe, who still commutes from nearby Oak Cliff, "I'm going to move out here to West Dallas. And I want a house with a big front porch where I can sit and talk to all the kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tonic & Telescopes | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Mary E. Curley, as a guest of John A. Galey of Winnetka, Ill., will attend the Yale Junior Prom at Payno Whitney gymnasium Friday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...regrets were felt over the loss of the rickety gray building with the low ceiling and the one cold water spigot that had previously passed for a gymnasium. "Chemical laboratory bottles upstairs juggled dangerously when anything more violent than Swedish movements was done," a reminiscence in the 1900 Yearbook reads. One member of the class of 1897 donated a large tin tub from home for the girls to bathe in after exercising...

Author: By Deborah Labenow, | Title: Annex Gymnasium Marks 50th Year As Basketball, Bowling Top Sports | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...primitive quaintness, from the time that the first Radcliffe athletic class met in October, 1898 until Mrs. Hemenway's gymnasium opened its doors five years later, only a handful of bloomered lasses turned out for sports classes each term...

Author: By Deborah Labenow, | Title: Annex Gymnasium Marks 50th Year As Basketball, Bowling Top Sports | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

Class teams were formed, captains chosen, and intramural meets held. Radcliffe's Athletic Association, then in its incipient stages, suddenly became the most active 'Cliffe organization as the gymnasium became the center of student activities. Class Day dances were permitted in the new building...

Author: By Deborah Labenow, | Title: Annex Gymnasium Marks 50th Year As Basketball, Bowling Top Sports | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

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