Word: linoleums
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...leaders and architects often conceived of modern churches as "religious plants" to accommodate psychiatric counseling, Sunday-school rooms, party kitchens, banquet halls and diverse country-club facilities. The sanctuary, scheduled for the last phase in fund-raising drives, often never made it. Sometimes services were held in low-ceilinged, linoleum-floored "fellowship halls...
...heating in 19th century America. It lost favor as a way to heat homes with the spread of natural gas, oil heat and rural electrification in the 1950s. To Americans in their 40s and 50s, the smell of kerosene still stirs Depression-era memories of farmhouse living rooms with linoleum-covered floors and bulky kerosene heaters from Sears or Montgomery Ward in the corner...
Take the Pentagon Officers' Athletic Club, for example. None other than the eminently authoritative New York Times noted last week that this "linoleum oasis" offers a crop of one liners ripe for the picking. "Reagan orders military belt tightening; Joint Chiefs hit the Universal for sweat-and-strategy session. Stock-man urges they 'Drop for 40 more."' You could...
...seems to be crowded most of the day and well into the evening. It's got rubber mats on the floor, the kind they put out at skating rinks to keep blades from scratching the linoleum, but here they serve to keep barbells from crashing through the floor. Inside, everything is sweaty, and but for the air-conditioning it would be sweatier still. I knew Bob in grade school, said "hi" when we passed in the hall in high school. He was a funny, pleasant guy, not really smart, thin and wiry, not big enough for most sports, but tough...
Corporate headquarters is a complex of drab brick buildings near an Atlanta airport taxiway. Some of the executive offices have linoleum tile, not a Bigelow, on the floor. The company even boasts of "zero paper-clip attrition" because it strips the clips from incoming mail rather than buying new ones...