Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tomorrow's races will be over the Henley distance of one mile and five-sixteenths, the course beginning just in front of the Tech boathouse and ending out in the Basin about a quarter of a mile past the M.I.T. Sailing Pavilion...
...Angeles County Museum. He promptly raised a willywaw, of the sort that gets pictures talked about. The man who raised the rumpus is Hilaire Hiler, whose great sleek murals of subsea fauna and the oceanic origins of life are a feature of San Francisco's handsome public bathing pavilion in Aquatic Park (TIME...
Then she told of a trip she had taken to the Heng-Yang Mountains to see the "Rub-the-Mirror Pavilion." There, 2,000 years ago, a young Buddhist monk had sat crossed-legged for days muttering "Amita Buddha! Amita Buddha!" The Father Prior took a brick and rubbed it against a nearby stone until the acolyte asked what he was doing...
Memories of the Past. All these things were in her mind as she lay sick last .month, her will sapped by nervous exhaustion, in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. China and all these struggles weighed on her mind. But gradually she drew strength from a hope-that she would be able to give the U.S. something it had lacked, a clear look into the eyes and at the face of China...
...John Benjamin Powell, pre-Pearl Harbor editor of the China Weekly Review, came back to the U.S. late last summer, was carted straight off the exchange ship Gripsholm to Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion to be treated for: 1) gangrenous feet suffered in a filthy, ice-cold Jap prison cell; 2) emaciation that had reduced him from 160 pounds to half as much. Last week imperishable, cheerful Editor Powell was still convalescing, expects to be for many more weeks. But he now weighs 110, one foot is healed. When the other is ready, Powell will begin arduous exercises, finally will...