Word: tepidarium
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...Yorker who yearns to fancy himself in the great tepidarium (warm room) of an ancient Roman bath need go no further than Pennsylvania Station: its main waiting room is almost a duplicate of the hall of the old Baths of Caracalla. The station also has a classical colonnaded facade, broad and elegant staircases, a huge, skylighted concourse with vaulting arches of lacy steel and glass. It smells of past grandeur and wars and old steam and tears and waitin'-for-the-train-to-come-in. All this is going to be torn down because it no longer makes economic...
...connection with this is the tepidarium, containing showers, steam and hot air baths, together with massage rooms. The cooling room will contain a marble drinking fountain, open fire place, and all the requirements for rest after bathing. The lockers for the crews are on the same floor with this. On the second story are the general locker rooms, which will contain about one thousand lockers, finished in hard wood, and provided with toilet rooms of marble...
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