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Word: gymnasium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raney scored 14 points, high for the game, and grabbed eight rebounds, also a game high, in the Crimson rampage over that Bruins at Yale's Payne-Whitney Gymnasium...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers Rout Brown in Tourney Opener | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

ROOSEVELT obtained the Imperial Decree and using the skills of an innocent Armenian photographer unable to read Persian he made 300 copies and rushed them to foreign embassies and public places. Then he hired the mobs of a former champion athlete, Sha'abar Bi Mokh, who ran a gymnasium in Tehran. Bi Mokh's name means "Brainless" but his lucrative employment with the CIA shows he was inappropriately christened. Roosevelt's other macabre preparations for the coup included the assasination of some of Mossadeq's supporters. Their bodies, throats slit, were buried in the Elburz mountains...

Author: By Trevor Barnes, | Title: The CIA in Iran | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

Students in Sykesville, Pa., meanwhile, have gathered 350,000 pop tops from beer and soda cans. The Sykesville scavengers intend to pile up 1 million of them in a corner of the school gymnasium, then sell them for recycling and donate the proceeds to charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Magic Number | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

People usually say they have joined the club for its reasonably priced facilities and convenient location, rather than for its social pretensions. There are eight squash courts, a small gymnasium, banquet facilities, meeting rooms, a library, a restaurant, several rooms for overnight accommodations, as well as Harvard Hall and the Grill Room, two large rooms filled with comfortable leather chairs where one can sip cocktails at any hour or just take a snooze in the wood-paneled serenity...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The New York Harvard Club: | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

...seriously at the Harvard Club, with eight courts and a full-time professional to help tune the members' games. The courts are almost always busy and the team perennially fields strong entries in the four levels of the highly competitive New York club league. The is also a small gymnasium, a sauna, a steam room and Nicky the masseur to complete the sixth-and seventh-floor sports facilities...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The New York Harvard Club: | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

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