Word: gymnasium
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...huge areaded hall, perhaps a market hall of the Roman period, is currently emerging from the gymnasium earlier identified by the expedition. Other large buildings have been uncovered by researchers from the University of California, who are digging on the eastern bank of the Pactoius River...
...popular course was Physical Training. In an era of prim Victorianism and sublimated libidinal longings, the sight of such exercise aroused a certain amount of comment. The Boston Herald, in its August 9th issue of 1903, raised its staid eyebrows at some of the activities going on in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...sight of several girls in gymnasium costume of bloomers and shirt waists taking part in a low hurdle race is not so common, even in these days, when exercise for women is generally approved, as to loose [sic] any of its novelty. And the girls do some good work, too. They take aptly to Mr. Graham's coaching and some of them acquire as good form as the men." The Herald coyly went on to point out that crowds of Cambridge men gathered each afternoon to watch the bloomer-clad girls exercise, and that two marriages of Summer School students...
Their shoulders were just beginning to smooth over with muscle, and their legs were still developing full power. Many had never competed in a national swimming meet. But before they were done with the A.A.U. championships held in Yale's Gothic Payne Whitney Gymnasium last week, the youthful American water bugs had served notice on the world-including the feared Australians and Japanese-that the U.S. was improving fast for the Rome Olympics next August. The A.A.U. meet was, in fact, the greatest in U.S. history: with 14 swimming events on the program, seven American records were broken...
...handle connected to a chain-and-wheel tackle from which hung 4 kg. (8¾ Ibs.) of lead. "Hold it as long as you can," ordered the thin, white-gowned woman pacing behind the test setup last week in an enclosed balcony of Lathrop Hall, women's gymnasium of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The coed, Marilyn Grabin, gritted her teeth and lifted the handle, got the weight up about eight inches...