Word: carpet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spread evenly over the floor. Now the face of the bust of Caesar or Michael Angelo has been washed to a candid white, and on the book-racks copies of the Black Cat and the Advocate have been hidden from sight. Now the awning is out and the carpet is down...
...furnish the rooms in all its buildings. To the long-suffering Senior in the Yard it seems more important that less undulating floors be provided upon which to moor the furniture which he has already purchased for himself. The splinters may be blunted by a heavy covering of carpet, but no way has been found to level the hills and fill the valleys. If the University will provide a surer footing, a sanitary way of removing dust, it is likely that even the pampered men of 1918 and after will still be willing to provide the furniture...
...leaving his room with the advent of the goodie and her broom, realizes that dust he is, and unto dust he is, and unto dust he will return. The broom can only give the particles a round trip in the air and then let them waft down on the carpet again, whereas the vacuum cleaner sucks the particles out of the very depths of one's Axminster and sucks them out for good...