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...rooms, each suite comes with a fully equipped kitchen, with a stove, oven, microwave and refrigerators, which students use to hold everything from late-night munchies to ice cold beer...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is 29 Garden Street Paradise Found? Or Paradise Lost? | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...Harper's dictionary of words that don't exist (but should) introduced the term algore, meaning "impenetrable blandness." Other terms included vacationoia, defined as the anxiety that overtakes the family far from home when no one can remember whether the stove was turned off. Grapevine offers the following much needed terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Word Watch: Aug 3, 1992 | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...overweight woman walked down a narrow hall into the center of her two-room apartment. The blue flames the leaping from the gas burners on the stove served as the source of heat for the whole room...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: High-Priced Lawyers, Low-Priority Lives | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

Fire officials said yesterday that a babybottle warming on a kitchen stove started thefire, which left approximately 70 residentshomeless...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fire Ruled Accidental; Residents Suspicious | 3/3/1992 | See Source »

Down below sit the houses so often touted on tourbooks and travel brochures, with picturesque stone walls and neat, well-kept shutters. If they were as authentic as the literature promises, they would contain quaint furniture, a wood-burning stove, maybe a kerosene lamp...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quasi-Euro Old Quebec: Tacky Theme-Park City | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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