Word: baths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house costs $40,000 in suburban Washington, D.C. In Florida, where suburban real estate is still relatively low, Deltona Corp. is building compacts (654 sq. ft. to 1,300 sq. ft.) ranging from $18,000 to $32,000 in eight different developments. Its smallest model, a one-bedroom, one-bath, air-conditioned house, sells...
...hospital, Mills usually uses a whirlpool bath (temperature: 100° to 108°) to warm and rinse the frozen area. To encourage healing, no dressing is used on the injured area. Sheets are sterilized, and attendants wear masks and gowns to prevent infection. Whirlpool baths are continued at slightly lowered temperatures. Mills also encourages exercises, not only to make frostbitten limbs flexible again but to give patients a psychological boost; they are often frightened by the appearance of the injury (blisters, swelling, discoloration). Mills allows alcohol because "it does offer solace" but forbids tobacco, which tends to constrict blood vessels...
World War II found Christie again practicing pharmacy and brushing up on the latest lethal drugs. Poison was a preferred method of dispatching a victim-frequently "in quiet family surroundings." She continued to publish one or two novels a year, often plotting them in a hot bath while eating apples. There was scarcely a time when her work was not before the public, not only on book jackets but in the credits of such stage and film works as Witness for the Prosecution and Ten Little Indians...
...most frustrating fixture of all, in Kira's view, is the tub-shower. "The only substantive reason for taking a tub bath is to relax," he maintains, "and yet it is precisely this that the vast majority of tubs have not permitted the user to do." The tub should be longer (6 ft., v. the standard 5 ft.) and wider, have a contoured back to fit the curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different...
...Center," a prototype built by Olsonite of Detroit. Mounted on a conventional toilet, it provides a tilting, vibrating back, reading light, ashtray, radio, TV, tuner and bidet attachment. To bring the bathroom back into the family-and vice versa-a West German firm has designed a Wohnbad, or living bath, to be shared by all. It boasts chairs, rugs, paintings, sun lamps and hair dryers, TV, bookshelves, sauna, telephone, refrigerator, bar and coffee maker. It does not stock Latin poetry, but the toilet paper has English-language lessons printed...