Word: gymnasiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lufkin, Texas (pop. 22,500), one cold night last week, 900 citizens jammed into the high-school gymnasium. There, over a $6 roast beef dinner, they listened to some famed Texans (including U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson) praise a fellow Texan in terms extravagant even for the Lone Star State. Said ex-Governor William P. Hobby: "He is the kingfish of free enterprise." Added Governor Allan Shivers: "He is Mister East Texas...
...freshman basketball team was dropped from the undefeated ranks by one Boston College foul shot on Tuesday, but will have the chance to start another win streak when it meets a weak MIT team at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Tech's Walker Memorial Gymnasium...
...Varsity B squash team dropped a close match to the University Club Blues, 3 to 2, yesterday afternoon at the Hemingway Gymnasium, while the Varsity C team defeated the Newton Square Squash and Tennis Club by the same score...
Although the temperature outdoors these days is considerably below this pleasant level the caretakers over at Hemenway gymnasium must try to maintain a constant 70 degrees every afternoon from 2:30 p.m. on. Coach Jack Barnaby and his squash team swing their stunted tennis racquets at the little black ball and expect it to bounce back with a normal velocity...
...among six widely spaced institutions: Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute, Washington's National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee. To house its share (101 modern paintings, Stieglitz photographs and African sculptures), Fisk remodeled its old gymnasium into a gallery at a cost of $25,000 and named it for a longtime friend of the university, Author Carl Van Vechten (Nigger Heaven, The Tattooed Countess). Last week 900 people got together to celebrate the new gallery's opening...