Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cycle of a towel is remarkable--from the time it is picked up in hampers by a collector until it is handed out completely fresh at Weld, or Dillon, of the Indoor Athletic Building. Starting at the Indoor Athletic Building, for example, the discarded towel is tied in a bundle of 25 and taken down to Dillon, where the transformation begins. the first step in the laundering process is the giant washing machine. Holding 200 towels, this huge cylinder combines 180 degrees of live steam with plenty of soapsuds to completely cleanse and sterilize anything with which it comes...
These porcelain figures are chessmen from the U.S.S.R., where chess is the most popular indoor sport and chess pieces represent figures in the class struggle. The chained worker is a capitalist pawn. The sinister piece whose head is a grimacing skull is the capitalist king. The rugged collective farmer is a communist pawn. The aproned worker is a communist king. Last week this chess set and over 30 others went on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Many of the pieces, some dating from the 9th Century, were exquisite miniature sculptures in ivory, silver, fine woods. Most...
...dreams and his experiences, and would explain that everyone taking off on a combat mission, from the seamiest veteran to the quivering first-timer, was in some degree afraid. If that did not work, he was grounded and sent to a rest home where sports, occupational therapy, indoor games, etc., were designed to take his mind off himself...
...Western Conference track championship - its seventh in ten years. In a meet at Champaign, Ill., Ross and Bob Hume of Canonsburg, Pa. finished in a deliberate dead heat with clasped hands to share the outdoor mile crown. They are now co-holders of two titles, having split the indoor mile in the same way last winter...
...first V-12--ASTP competition held last February in the Indoor Athletic Building, the Navy was victorious in eight boxing bouts, won the swimming meet, and captured the basketball title. The ASTP registered their lone triumph in wrestling. The present spring competition is under the supervision of Adolph, Samborski, Floyd Stahl, and Jaako Mikkola...