Word: pong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public address system, where three softball games with mixed teams were in progress, while at the other end of the grounds on a Badminton court, the Shuttlecock (bird) was taking a terrific beating from the rackets of both men and women. The tennis courts and the ping pong tables on the porch of Briggs Hall were used continuously...
Chaplain (Colonel) William D. Cleary received the gift consisting of rugs, individual easy chairs, lounges, library tables, reading lamps, a piano, and a ping-pong table. Introduced by the Invocation pronounced by Chaplain J. C. Ryan, the proceedings featured Sidney L. Rindler who spoke in behalf of the council and expressed his pleasure to be able to contribute towards the war effort. Dr. Philip G. Berman and Bennett Silverblatt, vice-president of the council and chairman of the War Work Committee were the other speakers of the evening...
...office force at the Headquarters in Germanic Museum are finding considerable relief and relaxation in the newly opened Day Room which has been rather attractively furnished with ping-pong table, easy chairs, victrola, piano, and various games...
...paradoxically bore is in a corner of the Yard a building whose reputation for community service is nation wide. Starting as a religious memorial for a famous Boston bishop, it has in peacetime taught old men cribbage and young men wrestling; now in wartime, it is providing ping-pong tables for service men, lounges for their wives, and a nursery for their children...
...slugs another, the victim may enter a bill of complaint. The slugger is tried, either pleading his own case or being defended by a "lawyer." If guilty, he is sentenced to such chores as window cleaning or is exiled for several days from the B.B.R.'s library, ping-pong tables, sports, etc. "None of us ever gets in trouble with the law, except our own laws," said the B.B.R.'s report...