Word: indoors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...junior Keller-Sarmiento was admitted as an early applicant to the Class of 1985. . . .Harvard soccer players aren't waiting until next fall to start preparing for the 1981 campaign. About 35 varsity, J.V. and freshmen players turned out last Tuesday night for the first session of Harvard indoor soccer. The group will play every Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30 p.m. until 1 a.m. on the top floor of the IAB, with three games going on at once. For now, says 1981 captain JOHN DUGGAN, the games are "pretty much informal," with no scorekeeping. Next week, however, Duggan hopes...
...steeples and in the hands of Volunteers of America Santas, organ music at skating rinks, the slash of sharp blades on crisp ice. At home, crackling fires and, if it has snowed, the stamping of feet as friends come in from the cold. Much later, out of the silent indoor darkness, the unmistakable soft tinkle and pop when an ornament falls off the tree. Above all, there is the joyous sound of people singing. Across the nation this week, hymns and carols fill the air with promise, renewing the covenants of peace and fellowship once more...
...woman was the victim of a new type of environmental blight: indoor pollution. By caulking seams, using multi-pane windows and packing walls with insulation, building owners can halve fuel needs for heating and cooling. But the saving comes at a price: seepage of fresh air from outside is so sharply reduced that pollutants from the building itself can accumulate to dangerous levels...
Calling such indoor smog an emerging health problem, the Comptroller General has cited half a dozen harmful substances detected in unusual quantities in super-sealed buildings. Among them: carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide, both byproducts of smoking, gas stoves and leaky furnaces; the radioactive gas radon, which results from the natural decay of radium, an element found in soil, rocks and other building materials; and numerous particles of dust, soot and asbestos...
...indoor track team's 94-59 drubbing of Brown Saturday holds any portent of the kind of season the thinclads have ahead of them, then the stars certainly look propitious for the trackmen, and it may well turn into a season to remember...