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Word: thermostat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, not everyone has reacted as I have to the weather. My physics major roommate has begun ground-breaking research on a thermostat-controlled pajamas. My actor roommate uses the weather to inspire soliloquies set in the Arctic North. And my humanities roommate divides his time between exploring the ontological implications of "cold" and using the lack of "artificial heat" as a creative pick-up line...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Cold Night in Hell | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

...feet and warm ceilings, a gently rotating fan will even things out so you don't have to turn the heat up so high. (In summer switch the direction of the blades and increase the speed. The wind chill will make it feel like 72 degrees, even though the thermostat's set at 78 degrees.) A ceiling fan, says the weather lady, takes no more energy than a 100-watt light bulb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Throw a Few More Kernels on the Fire | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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