Word: ponged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradoxically there 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...
...lounge will give students with odd hours during the day a place to spend them. Bridge tables, ping pong tables a grand piano, dancing space, and a radio phonograph with a record library to draw from are provided in the large room. The small room contains a central reading table on which will be the latest local and out-of-town newspapers, current magazines, and stationery and writing materials...
...lounge, on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House, is intended to provide the student with a comfortable place to spend leisure time. Bridge, ping-pong, and billiards are among the recreational facilities. A grand piano and a radio-phonograph, with a record library, cater to the students' musical tastes, while numerous magazines and newspapers will be provided in a smaller room off the main lounge...
...Lounge is intended to provide the student with a comfortable place to spend odd moments during the day. Its two tastefully decorated rooms contain recreational facilities to suit all tastes. In the large Phillips Brooks Room there will be bridge and ping-pong tables, a billiard table, a concert grand piano, a radio-phonograph, and a large floor space for dancing. In the smaller room opening off the main lounge are comfortable, leather upholstered chairs and several window seats. On the center table in this room will be placed current magazines, daily out-of-down and local newspapers, and stationery...
...borrow equipment. South African girls stationed in Cairo talked U.S. Sergeant Walter Dzilinski into coaching them, challenged U.S. nurses at softball, licked them 7-3. (The nurses promptly blacklisted Dzilinski, demanded two return games, won both.) The Army's sports program in the Middle East ranges from ping-pong (in place of tennis) to basketball. Many camps have lighted, wooden courts. Boxing is one of the most popular sports. Licked last year by the British, U.S. boxers are now training for a return match next month, expect to fight before 30,000 at the El Alamein Sporting Club...