Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieve the negative, heat is supplied by forcing air over hot-water pipes in the ceiling-in an earlier building the children tore ordinary radiators apart. Walls are lined with rugged tile up to a height of seven feet. Thermostats are covered by grills. Door hinges are made so that they cannot be dismantled. Beds, like other furniture, are of rugged, 1¼-in. oak. "We tried steel beds before," says Dr. Waggoner, "and they only lasted a few months...
...subject of Outer Mongolia, was a chance to make a stand, even in principled defiance of the U.S.. and that defiance was a source of satisfaction. In Hong Kong an old Chinese proverb was quoted: "Better to be a broken piece of jade than a whole tile...
Forty-five steps below Massachusetts Avenue is a world where wind, sun, and week-end rain never penetrate. Row on row of bare bulbs cast their glare on shadowy caverns. The only moisture to reach the tile and litter clings loosely to the windows and roofs of swaying trolley cars...
...years ago, insisted that the union was getting its money's worth. The house has three bedrooms and three baths on one floor, two two-car garages, a separate four-room apartment, a movie room with seats for 50 and two theater-sized projectors, a bathhouse, a heated tile swimming pool covering 1,000 square feet, and an ornamental stream with artificial rock waterfall, illuminated at night. Dave Beck feels that it is just the kind of place a labor leader should have. Said he: "The labor movement has to pay its top executives what business would...
...happy solution." But other C.I.O. chiefs felt that it was "a conglomeration that we'll have to live with for at least two years." Almost everyone admitted it would present problems for a union like the International Association of Marble, Slate and Stone Polishers, Rubbers and Sawyers, Tile and Marble Setters Helpers and Terrazzo Helpers American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations...