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Word: gymnasium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play has its merits-some whale-boned wit, metaphysical elegances, aphoristic insights. But Fry is more successful using life as a gymnasium than as a laboratory; theatrically, he is in less danger on a trapeze than on terra firma. He can make words perform all kinds of tricks, but not yet pulse with truth. Shaw, too, loved to send up rhetorical Roman candles. but Shaw's, unlike Fry's, sometimes came down hand grenades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...varsity squash team won the final four matches to defeat Williams, 5 to 4, yesterday at Hemenway Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squash Team Defeats Williams; Victories in Late Matches Bring 5-4 Win | 2/26/1955 | See Source »

...varsity squash team, seeking its seventh win of the season, opposes a well-balanced Williams squad today at 2 p.m. in Hemenway Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team to Face Ephs in Bid For Seventh Win | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

...Nichols team, which has been practicing in a small gymnasium, will probably use the zone defense. The Yardlings have been preparing for zone play this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Five Plays Nichols In Contest at 7:30 Tonight | 2/16/1955 | See Source »

...Yale's all American sports publicity agent Charley Loftus has switched his emphasis from the Yale medical room and its injury lists to the Eli Indoor gymnasium. Yale publicity is Loftus' job, and he does it well, but perhaps he does it too with an digressiveness and completeness which at times belies his college's membership in the newly formed Ivy League...

Author: By L.k. Sronson, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/15/1954 | See Source »

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