Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only sport which the school goes all the way in supporting. The small size of the student body (96 boys) and the deliberate curbing of a competitive "old school" spirit dictate a rather half-hearted athletic showing. The school has always had financial problems, and still has no real gymnasium, almost no equipment, and inadequate playing fields...
...study on merit pay has poked along for four years, but teachers have been consistently cool to the idea of raises given according to ability. Said one disgusted citizen last week: "Sure a good career teacher is worth more money. And a science teacher is worth more than a gymnasium teacher. But the educators just won't look at it that way. Pay the good teacher more, but also pay the lousy teacher more? Nuts...
Next to his wife, durable Screen Siren Joan Crawford, the personal pride of Pepsi-Cola Chairman Alfred Nu Steele is his gymnasium-sized Manhattan apartment, 13 stories above Fifth Avenue at 70th Street. Easily awed Broadway columnists have dubbed it "Taj Joan." But it's quite a place; Joan insists that visitors remove their shoes before entering lest they soil the quicksand-soft golden carpets...
...morning newspaper route; he sold Bibles in West Virginia during the summer, and still ran out of money in his sophomore year and had to quit school. He hitchhiked West, dug storm sewers in Denver, earned some of his hardest-won dollars as a sparring partner in a local gymnasium until he was undone by a middleweight named Gentleman Ham Jenkins. After that he landed a job as a ranch hand in Wyoming's Jackson Hole country...
...When I was in the later days of gymnasium, a friend of mine said to me 'Now there are these mysterious Etruscans and we must learn about them.' He made me get interested with him. As it turned out, he became an actor; but I am still studying the Etruscans...