Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk to the staff on the value of life insurance and a stable dollar. Nixon was driven to the Harlem branch of the Y.M.C.A., where he inspected the men's and women's lounges, watched a swimming lesson in the pool. After poking his head into the gymnasium to see two boys dribbling basketballs, he returned by car to the Hotel Theresa and, not noticeably winded, set to work on his speech...
Once upon a time, there was a boxing manager who was so honest that to keep himself in coffee and cakes he also had to run a gymnasium that catered to hopeful fist fighters. (No spitting on the floor, put cigar butts in cuspidors.) There he developed a surefire system for picking winners. "Their built don't matter so much," Bobby Gleason liked to explain. "What they gotta be if they want to get along in this racket is a little stupid...
Last week, in Idaho State College's jampacked gymnasium, rugged undergraduates from 17 colleges whaled away at each other for three days to settle the N.C.A.A. championships. Superbly conditioned, Louisiana State's sophomore heavyweight, Crowe Peele, demonstrated just how good a college boxer can get. Although his team finished behind Michigan State in a three-way tie for second (along with San Jose State and Syracuse University), Peele battered his way through the tournament finals without a defeat...
...HAVEN, Conn., March 18--Yale, North Carolina State, Harvard, and Dartmouth in that order dominated the first full day of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Invitational Individual Championships at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium pool here today. It appeared through most of the meet as though the Elis would be shut out of first, but the Blue copped the final two events on the program to go with two seconds achieved earlier...
Coach Hal Ulen's varsity swimmers open their second attempt at overturning Yale at 10 a.m. today, this time in the Elis' own pool at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium In New Haven. The occasion is the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League's 15th Annual Invitation Individual Championships, which means that the Crimson will have the top swimmers from all over the East helping in the upset effort, running through Saturday night...