Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best greets with vigorous aplomb. Five long-term convicts tried to escape, attempted to free nine troublemakers in solitary. Using a smuggled-in gun, and knives sneaked out of the prison shoeshop, they wounded two guards. But tear gas stopped them. Then the five were marched to the prison gymnasium, were stripped, examined by a physician and shackled over the "grey mare," a wooden gym horse. As the doctor stood by, the warden himself and guards took turns walloping the five where mother used to spank. Their lash was a leather strap 6 inches wide and 2%½ feet long...
...Defense and the chiefs and secretaries of each service have their own dining rooms where they and their guests eat in sacrosanct seclusion. There are two hospitals, a television-radio studio which transmits three nationwide programs each week. Underneath the River Entrance there is an officers' club and gymnasium with five handball courts, Turkish baths and four bowling alleys...
...library presentation ceremony was held in the $250,000 Beaverbrook Gymnasium (his gift for 1939). Later, Beaverbrook presided with uninhibited gusto over a black-tie dinner, where he heard himself described as "an astounding combination of Puck and Napoleon." The Beaver lingered until 4 a.m., helping the 250 guests put away 95 bottles of champagne, uncounted slugs of whisky, with many a lusty song...
Yale has decided to crack down on the towel situation. Discovery of an annual loss of $3,600 caused the director of the Yale gymnasium to start a get-tough policy during the last two months. Harvard authorities, meanwhile, stated that a similar situation does not exist in Cambridge...
...mysterious French torch singer will be one of the attractions at Radcliffe's "Leopoldskron Leap," an all-college informal dance which will be held in the gymnasium tonight at 8:30 p.m. The "Dunces" and a magician also will perform at the dance, sponsored by Radcliffe's Class...