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Word: tiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHING: Big Haul | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One Hardly Knows Anyone | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Memorial Hall Basement Could Easily Hold Activities Center | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Memorial Hall Basement Could Easily Hold Activities Center | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Memorial Hall Basement Could Easily Hold Activities Center | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

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