Search results for "YMCA" - New World Encyclopedia
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- to find work as a Broadway actor. Living at the YMCA on 125th Street, he persuaded the manager there to allow him to instruct a public speaking class ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
- the book was printed in 1921. It was reprinted by YMCA Press in Paris in 1967.), a follow-up to Vekhi, and published several other notable articles on ...14 KB (2,049 words) - 14:45, 28 March 2023
- involved with Christian youth activities through the YMCA. However, he soon became disenchanted with organized religion. He wrote in his diary, "There ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- order to accept a position with the Chicago YMCA at $83 per month. Sunday& ... evangelist, as his ministry at the Chicago YMCA had given him first-hand experience ...47 KB (7,375 words) - 22:05, 3 February 2022
- with the early attempts at Scouting from the YMCA and other organizations, and Daniel Carter Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone, to form the BSA.David ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- meet. At the age of 12 Johnny earned a spot on the YMCA swim team. ==Swimming Career== |right|250px|Johnny Weissmuller, who played "Tarzan ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:44, 15 April 2023
- #039;s modern theory of Qi in the human body. YMCA Press. ISBN 978-1594390678 ==External links == All links retrieved February 20, 2024. ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- Led by Methodist layman John R. Mott (former YMCA staff and in 1910, the General Secretary of WSCF), the World Mission conference marked the ...23 KB (3,375 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- California to Caltech University and its YMCA, of which he was a lifelong supporter. Capra's It's a Wonderful Life has become one of ...21 KB (3,350 words) - 05:01, 9 April 2024
- the end of the war he was offered a post within the YMCA’s educational work programme as Musical Director, and he set off for Salonica (present day ...22 KB (3,380 words) - 18:13, 24 July 2023
- have memberships in health clubs such as the YMCA or take classes such as martial arts to participate in regular exercise. Secondary school level ...29 KB (4,035 words) - 16:36, 1 March 2023
- and Avison vice president. Located at YMCA, courses began in April of that year with sixty students and eighteen faculty members. Underwood ...28 KB (3,704 words) - 21:29, 4 June 2023
- while a YMCA lifesaving and water safety manual from the early 1950s reminded swimming instructors how "flippers can be used to great advantage ...26 KB (3,876 words) - 13:41, 23 March 2023
- him a national reputation quickly. He impressed YMCA leader Sherwood Eddy and traveled with him to Europe in 1923 to meet with intellectuals and ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- calendar. It was started in 1976 at the Metropolitan YMCA by its five founders and within a year had 4200 runners competing. In 2002, Paula Radcliffe ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- The dwelling was partially a converted YMCA gym, complete with lockers and communal showers. The building fell within New York City rent control ...53 KB (8,079 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- expanded and Christian movements like the YMCA and YWCA became popular. The Manchurian revival (1908) that swept through the churches of present ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- Melathron, P.A.O.K. Sports Arena and the YMCA indoor hall. Other sporting ... of basketball in Greece. The local YMCA was the first to introduce ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- of Wang Fuzhi. Taking part in the Chinese National YMCA mass education movement to fight illiteracy, he opened a Changsha branch, though replaced the ...95 KB (14,231 words) - 15:44, 12 June 2023
