Word: gymnasium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During tomorrow's debate, which begins at 9 p.m., Nader said he will join protestors outside the converted gymnasium that will serve as a studio...
...Mass, the basketball gymnasium and the hockey rink are being used for the debate, said U-Mass spokesperson John Hoey...
Evidence later obtained from underwater cameras shows that the blast tore open the entire double-hulled forward section of the 505-ft. vessel, an area the size of a school gymnasium. Seawater would have slammed into the torpedo and cruise-missile compartments, instantly killing the men on duty there. In the control room just aft of the shattered weapons compartments, Lyachin, the five staff officers and the dozen or so officers and petty officers manning the ship's controls would have had no time to react before the combined power of the blast and seawater tore through, destroying the gleaming...
...loyal customers. Like most school districts along the lower Mississippi, Vicksburg's had long hovered outside the orbit of education reformers. It was still largely segregated, and year after year its test scores stagnated. The schools were so overcrowded that at one building three teachers held class in the gymnasium at the same time. So parents took to voting with their feet. And their skin. Many white parents fled to private and parochial schools, while others began home schooling. Some black parents, convinced the schools in their neighborhoods were worse off academically, gave the district fake addresses in order...
Pappas' library has more than 13,000 books, and a new computer lab will open this fall. But the school has no gymnasium, no theater, no after-school clubs and no instrumental-music classes. Kids are required to attend mainstream schools if their families get settled. In practice, however, scores of children drift in and out of Pappas for years, partly because it's such a nurturing place. A student who shows up with dirty clothes will get new ones. There's a medical clinic on campus. And nearly every kid takes home a box of food each month along...