Word: gymnasiums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wigglesworth West fought a terrific battle with Weld North, coming through for a 30 to 29 win in the last few seconds of last night National League game at Hemenway Gymnasium. Dudley crushed Matthews South, 38 to 19, Grays edged Thayer South, 29 to 27, Lionel swamped Hollis, 37 to 24, and Massachusetts defeated Straus South, 25 to 16 in four National League games...
...Gymnasium Found...
Next to the avenue, the Harvard-Cornell team is uncovering a large Roman gymnasium. The colonnaded marble court had capitals decorated with the heads of sad and laughing satyrs, Gorgons with snakes for hair, and other mythical characters. The archaeologists discovered new fragments of two great inscriptions; one records the construction of the mable court in 211-212 A.D., while the other speaks of gold-covered roofs, mosaics, and marble inlays applied to the building when it was restored by Byzantine architects during the fifth and sixth centuries...
...east lay the lavish summer greenery of the Wood River Valley. Around the rose-covered coffin gathered only about 50 people, mostly Idaho neighbors and some of Hemingway's always-varied circle of friends-a doctor, a rancher, a hotel man, a onetime operator of a gymnasium. "O Lord," prayed Father Robert Waldmann, pastor of Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church, "grant to thy servant Ernest the remission of his sins. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord...
Slogans & Doublethink. Spain's bloody ground became a moral gymnasium for all the liberals of the West; theirs is by now a depressing record of human illusion and disillusion. On the level of national policy, the story is equally dismal -the impotence of the League of Nations, the nonintervention policy of Britain and France and the arms Embargo Act in the U.S. leaving the door open for intervention by Stalin and the Axis. Historian Thomas' sober judgment is that German-Italian intervention may have just barely tipped the scales in Franco's favor; Stalin could have...