Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upstairs, miles of corridors, reception rooms, drawing rooms, anterooms, bedrooms, bathrooms were lined with paintings and stuffed with bric-a-brac. The music room, as big as a cathedral, housed all kinds of instruments, including an antediluvian phonograph and an organ. All the instruments were automatic. In the gymnasium were all sorts of exercise equipment, including an ingenious machine, made in Battle Creek, Mich., which was supposed (but signally failed) to keep the royal rump from becoming imperial. Farouk's study was a pornographer's paradise, hung with garish paintings and crammed with statuettes of nudes in attitudes...
Gloom hung as heavy as an Iron Curtain over the Communist camp. An official there was asked by reporters what had happened to the big gymnasium scoreboard, which had so proudly blared the Communist winners and their scores. He said the board was still there. A Western reporter slipped inside to look. Someone had erased the scores...
...with this "weekend," hoping that like the Confederate caps of yesterday month they would pass away and not turn us into a replica of a certain college in the New Jersey mud flats. We might even overlook the massing of more than a sixth of the College into a gymnasium where for an exorbitant price a student was permitted to transport himself and one friend through a dark steamy atmosphere for the better part of four hours; that is a matter of individual taste. But when the regattas consider it their duty to put themselves in command of a public...
Charlie Ufford, National Intercollegiate Singles champion, edged Captain Jim Bacon for the University Squash title at Hemenway Gymnasium yesterday afternoon...
Charlie Ufford, number one man on the Crimson squash team, and 1951-52 Captain Jim Bacon will meet in the finals of the All-University Squash Tournament, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at Hemenway Gymnasium...