Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheerleaders this year will again have the sue of a private gymnasium complete with mats, supporting ropes, spring boards, and two trampolines...
...Germany last month, an audience largely of G.I.s in the Rhein-Main Air Base gymnasium cheered every number to the rafters. Berlin audiences, seeing their first American ballet since the war, bravoed Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free (although the critics chewed their whiskers, muttered about "acrobatic distortion"). At the Edinburgh Festival a fortnight ago, it seemed to Directress Lucia Chase (TIME, May 8) that "everybody liked everything"; Edinburgh's Lord Provost sent an enthusiastic thank you to Harry Truman, who had given his blessing to the tour. Last week, after a Ballet Theatre opener at Covent Garden, the London...
...modern U.S. home. Features: staterooms with sofa berths which make them convertible into daytime sitting rooms; "penthouse" apartments (living room, bedroom, two baths, two dressing rooms and private terrace); air-conditioning throughout, including the roomy quarters for the 578-man crew. There are shops, restaurants, cocktail bars, a gymnasium, nursery, theater, library, swimming pool and, to make Americans feel at home, a soda fountain. With the Independence and her twin sister Constitution, to be launched in September, American Export will offer U.S. tourists a crossing from New York to Genoa in eight days...
...believe it, but I walked right into a plate glass door at my hotel." Previous reasonable explanations: "I got shiner number one when a dentist swung his X-ray device and bumped me. Numbers two and three were the results of accidents while playing paddle tennis in the House gymnasium...
...Lake Placid School, the Chestnut Hill Academy). He had been working with Navajos for more than nine years. At Brigham City he lost no time getting the wheels turning. Within six months, with a $3,700,000 appropriation, he had remodeled every room in the hospital, built a gymnasium and seven other new buildings, organized a staff of 130. By January, George Boyce was ready for his first pupils at Intermountain Indian School...