Word: carpeted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cumberland Valley R. R. of Pennsylvania built some bunks into a second-hand coach. Travelers could use the roller towel, basin and water provided in the rear of the car. It traveled between Harrisburg and Chambersburg, Pa. Later innovations were straw ticks, blankets, cuspidors. Travelers used their carpet bags for pillows...
...Round about stood, like seeming giants, the Foot Guards in their enormous, tall, bearskin hats. On prancing coal black horses sat stiffly the Horse Guards, clad in white buckskin breeches and silver-plated body armor. Across the Royal Waiting Room and down the platform was spread a great crimson carpet...
...there any particular reason why well built dormitories should thus fill-with dust. There are, even in such hinterlands as this of greater Boston, vacuum cleaners. And somewhere there are funds to purchase, if not better "goodies", at least carpet sweepers. Man, indeed, must all too soon return to dust. The Senior year at Harvard need not be such a direct threat of doom...
...taking the liberty of writing you regarding your comment on the Hoover v. Eureka [vacuum cleaner] suit as outlined on page 33-34 of TIME, April 18, because it makes rather adverse reference to the carpet sweeper and even specifically mentions Bissell sweepers...
...plant at Canton, Ohio, when the Sesquicentennial Exposition managers gave the grand prize to the Eureka and the secondary gold medal to the Hoover. "There was knavery in the awarding," said Hoover men, and their lawyers brought suit, alleging that the Exposition managers unexpectedly changed the rules of their carpet cleaner contest, that they unexpectedly changed their jury of award, that an award of a gold medal to Eureka had been wrongly changed to the award of the grand prize. The Eureka Co. has done damage to the Hoover concern reads the bill of complaint, "by false advertisements and statements...