Word: linoleum
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...ratty double of two dudes from downstate Illinois does not a happy triple make. The point is that everyone knows that there are rich people and poor people here at Harvard. This new service would just allow you to measure economic well-being by the sheen on the linoleum. Wealth probably shouldn’t correlate with dust bunny size...
...speeches from church pulpits. Upon discovering books, the child delved into the written word, turning out weekly book reports for her father. Even during turbulent times, not a moment was wasted. Seeds were being planted, watered, nurtured. On April 13, 1964, nearly an adolescent and watching television from the linoleum floor of her mother's walk-up flat in Milwaukee, she witnessed an event that connected to something deep inside of her. She was watching the live broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony and saw a young African-American actor receiving the film industry's highest honor. Sharing in that...
...equipment; know the approved uses of all such woods, how to join them and finish them for the jobs in which they are used, and know all the Navy regulations with regard to ship ventilation, painting, damage control, watertight integrity, drainage systems, and the laying and care of linoleum. Understand the work of drydocking, the shoring required preparatory to drydocking and the principles of preservation of wood and wood surfaces used in various parts of the ships...
...draped over an arm of one of the chairs, had fallen asleep). There, on the top floor of the library with the lights of duplexes and of the Quad shuttle glinting below me, I found myself alone in the company of soda, snack and coffee machines and expanses of linoleum. “This is creepy as hell,” I said aloud, just to hear a voice. I was sorry when nobody told me to be quiet. When I descended again, letting the heels of my shoes clatter in the stairwell to dispel the quiet, I felt both...
...from the T-shirt that swaddles it and apologizes for the mess of clothing draped over his bedframe. Some snack food—two packages of Ritz crackers, a row of oranges—adorns the mantle of the common room. Several toiletries stand like chess pieces on the linoleum floor tiles, and the open door to a coat closet nearby reveals a jumble of cardboard boxes...