Word: towel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University athletic buildings every day pass thousands of men who are conditioning themselves in the accelerated physical program here at Harvard. After a cross country workout, or a grimy football drill, or calisthenics class, it is taken for granted that there will be a refreshing shower and a clean towel waiting at the various athletic buildings. Few men realize that every towel used in the athletic program is laundered by the University right here at Dillon Field House...
Washing several thousand towels a day is a common occurrence in the daily University wash. Operating 24 hours a day with a crew of four men, the Field House laundry has had to step up its tempo to meet the increased towel demand brought about by the accelerated physical training program. Even during the past year, after the conditioning program had started, the increase has been parked. From July 1942 to July 1943 402,700 towels were washed, as compared to 331,625 during the previous year...
...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...
...call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have shined his shoes with...
...eggs are cold and vulcanized, the bacon soggy, the toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets are. If he tries to phone for help he will get nothing but a dull, buzzing noise...