Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building and ground, nothing for the presses he wanted to leave behind. Then the State Supreme Court upheld Mr. Chandler in his demand that he be paid for his equipment. Meantime, Mr. Chandler had started his new plant, a six-story miniature skyscraper topped by an Hispanic tile roof, with the printing plant separated from the main structure by a 6-in. crack. Next the City Council stepped in, offered to save a retrial by a new appraisal which set the figure at a high $1,875,000. That was the signal for Mr. Chandler to do the handsome thing...
...Cabinet of Premier Walery Slawek moved slowly down the aisle. Outside the sun was just breaking through the rain clouds. Along silent streets lined with troops and weeping crowds, the body passed. At one spot there was a near panic. A ladder left by some workman on a tile roof clattered to the ground. People screamed, broke windows, milled about, until square-capped officers with drawn sabres had cleared a path...
Each maid is given anywhere from twelve to sixteen boys. No exceptions are made as to whether you work in the Houses where all modern improvements prevail, or whether you are in the old dorms in the Yard, where there is no tile or parquet floors to take care...
...Cabinet was all of one sex. When Miss Perkins looked over her own office in the new building she found it satisfactory. Opening a door she stepped happily into an adjoining bathroom with full-length mirrors, frosted window panes, a shower stall with seven needle sprays and pastel-tinted tile. Then with consternation she noted that there was another door to her bathroom. She opened it and found it led into the future office of her Solicitor General, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. Officially Mr. Wyzanski is her right-hand man, her invaluable aide who accompanies her on many...
...original announcement of the House Dance to be held next Friday, stated explicitly that in order to avoid crowding in the Common Room, there would be installed an amplifying system of the better variety, so that these who enjoy dancing on the tile floors might glide ever the pavements of the Dining Hall...