Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town of Whitney, in the rolling hills of central Texas, U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson last week made his first political speech since he was stricken with a heart attack last July. To the 1,510 Texans at a Democratic fund-raising dinner in the Whitney high school gymnasium, the most absorbing word from Johnson was his call for unity and loyalty among Texas Democrats, who switched to Dwight Eisenhower by the thousands in 1952. But another facet of the Senate majority leader's speech alerted politicians in Washington and all over the U.S. Serving notice to Democrats and Republicans...
Lack of space is the main obstacle. The only room presently in use which is large enough to shelter a herd of typists is Memorial Hall; yet exam schedulers hesitate to sacrifice if for typing. It does seem feasible, however, for tables to be set up in Hemenway Gymnasium or in the IAB when varsity teams are not practicing. Even more convenient would be a dining hall. Funncling students to other Houses for breakfast and lunch as different houses were used on successive days would not be very difficult...
While most departments at Yale are attempting to improve their facilities to reach levels dictated by present enrollment, one particular area need have no worry: mammoth Payne-Whitney Gymnasium should be adequate to meet all foreseeable problems of the department of Physical Education...
...greeted by 2,500 Berliners, many of them Mormons themselves. On the station steps, a German Mormon choir burst into the great Mormon hymn, Come, Come Ye Saints, and the Americans joined in to thunder the final phrase: "All is well! all is well!" Next evening in a modernistic gymnasium, they stood scrubbed and friendly before 3,000 paying customers. Thunderous applause greeted the Battle Hymn of the Republic. After that, the choir ran through its religious repertory, from a semi-spiritual (Listen to the Lambs All A-Cryin') to Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. The audience demanded six encores...
Flexible & Friendly. Over the century the Y.M.C.A. multiplied more than a hundredfold. It lost much of its early puritanism, expanded its services in every direction. A herald of the physical gospel, it celebrated its liturgy in the gymnasium, introduced sports into dozens of lands (basketball and volleyball are Y.M.C.A. inventions). Working with youngsters, teen-agers and adults, it taught everything from swimming and driving to painting and how to prepare for marriage...