Word: playroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joggle Toys, intended as permanent wall decorations in the playroom. Dangling from each figure (e.g., kangaroo, horse and rider, quacking duck) is a string which, when pulled, sends the wall toy into action. The Joggle Toys were designed as an answer to the problem of decorating a child's room, which Arnold sees as "either throw-uppy cute wallpaper or nothing...
...ease with which she can switch accommodations depending on her bookings. Although designed for 626 tourist-and 176 first-class passengers for the North Atlantic run, one entire deck can be converted from first to tourist by closing two doors. On cruises (400 passengers), a children's playroom becomes a snack bar; two cargo hatches, swimming pools...
...community. They equipped each classroom with its own washroom, scaled its windows and ceilings to child-size. Other kinds of rooms, however, are of different heights, and each height has its reasons. The low-ceiling corridors leave room for extra clerestory windows in the classrooms, but the high-peaked playroom is designed in part for adults who want to hold dances or meetings at night...
...himself away by answering: "Nine months" (he has a sister nine months old). Asked, "Does your mother love you?", he replied: "She loves my baby sister." All Mike's answers confirmed what the family's first interview at the center, backed by observation of Mike in the playroom, had indicated: the boy felt himself dethroned by his baby sister, and was doing his poor best to take her place...
...tiny injection of radio-sodium, which mixes with the rest of the sodium in the body so that the dilution can be computed with the aid of a Geiger counter, doctors can tell when the danger point is approaching. Every day a dozen happy children banging around the playroom of the hospital at Long Island's Brookhaven Laboratory give testimony to the success of this technique...