Word: refurnishing
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...direction. Typical of the mood was the budget year of Mrs. Flora Binder, a Sherman Oaks, Calif., housewife; in her household, it seemed a good year to put on a new roof, to apply a new coat of paint to the house, to buy a garbage-disposal unit, to refurnish the living room and to replace the TV set with a newer model. Consumers have become so casual about outlays that used to call for a family council that Miss Sadie Zlotkin, a temporarily unemployed coat stitcher in West Los Angeles, when asked if she had made any major purchases...
...spend quite so much time buried in their books as modern Harvard lore sometimes suggests. He considers the student of today to be a man of literary and artistic sophistication, and therefore a man sensitive to the physical appearance of the building he inhabits. Mr. Stewart would like to refurnish many of the Lowell suites, improve the lighting in the junior common room, and particularly, make some changes in the House dining hall. Believing that a House should be a place "in which persons doing and hearing things can do and hear them," he would like to emphasize the House...
...portion of the fund will be used to refurnish this conference room, and the rest will be used of scholarships for outstanding second and third year law students...
...bargain, and having at last discovered that its soldiers were better trained at country training camps, wanted to sell the Stevens. This seemed stupidity compounded: where in this land of priorities could anyone possibly buy enough down-cushion sofas, good beds, copper and aluminum kettles and pans to refurnish the Stevens...
Catch Offers. The almost empty shell of the Stevens nevertheless attracted tentative offers, most of which presented catch clauses. One offered $7,500,000 for the Stevens, but stipulated that the U.S. Government must refurnish...