Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of the market's 100-odd companies have elaborate cold-storage vaults, and some have ice-making machinery. Fish are cleaned with such gadgets as automatic washing vats and electric-powered scale removers. For processing fish for hotels and other big customers, one company has built big tile workrooms that are as gleaming as a Hollywood steam bath. The market lives up to its boast: "If it swims, we handle it." The Fulton fishmongers supply such exotic morsels as Japanese frog legs, Alaskan king crabs, Indian pompano, Irish bloaters and South African alewives...
...Jones, it seemed, had a decided personal desire, all right. By last week, 71 patients had received treatment in Bath. From now on, free of charge, more & more of Britain's arthritic and rheumatic poor would share the tile-lined baths and rubbing rooms with the hypochondriacal and over-indulged rich...
Compared with the huge pile of Gothic above it, the Psychology Department's home is as out of place as a television set in a monastery. Bright tile floors, fluorescent lighting, carved woodwork, and brick glass inlays give an aura of ultra-modernism that outdistances anything else in the University...
...corridors are six feet wide and have tile floors, fluorescent lights, and ivory-painted walls. Around the outside are 47 rooms of various sizes; inside the two blocks of the "8" are the shops, library, and seminar room...
This auditorium is probably the most modernistic lecture hall in the University. Windows are all closed off, so a flick of a switch can darken the room for slides or movies. A tile floor, twenty fluorescent fixtures and a curved platform add to the modernistic atmosphere...