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Word: gymnasium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Lincoln, Meek headed at 75 m.p.h. to Paxton, thence to Bloomington and finally to Pontiac, where he spoke that night in a grade-school gymnasium. When his speech was over, he hustled outside. There, with the moonbeams filtering down through the elms, he stood for nearly an hour; in that time he shook some 470 hands. To one man he commented: "What a nice sweater." Spotting a G.O.P. precinct worker, he said: "You're doing a grand job." A middle-aged woman got a "You sure look good tonight, ma'am," and a toothless oldster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opposites in Illinois | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...during the last decade will be needed, in addition to expanded classroom, laboratory, and social facilities. A new men's dormitory and several science buildings are now in the process of construction, while next year will see the ground-breaking for a Student Union and a large women's gymnasium. Meanwhile, the next legislature will be asked to appropriate $4,000,000 to expand the University's library and build a new Liberal Arts classroom building...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Fast Expanding University of Massachusetts Seeks to Discard Outworn 'Cow College' Label | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

Temporary barracks-type facilities in the IAB gymnasium housed the students until they were relocated across the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of House Space Forces Students to Live at B-School | 10/1/1954 | See Source »

...eleven years. He did not rest until boxing was made an important part of the regular physical training program and one of the biggest crowd attractions at Annapolis. Once, to cut the cheering section to manageable size, the Academy made formal dress the uniform for attending fights. MacDonough Hall gymnasium was still filled to capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baltimore Brawler | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...theatro mirifice sunt amoris imperatores facti. Eheu, quam proterve K. Vadum Fractum, lascivi suboles gregis, iterum aestuat! Musae quidem Plautinae alto de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; Risus Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Asinaria Harvardiana | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

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