Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Pueblo Indians) Mexico's artists graduated to the only finished stone-carving and temple-building of the Mayas and Toltecs. When, in 1521, the Aztec empire was destroyed by the Spanish Blitzkrieg, Mexico's artists turned from feathered serpents to waxworky saints, from pyramids to tile-walled cathedrals. After the revolution of 1910 had cramped the style of the Church and had given a groping start to socialism, they turned modernistic, swiped an idea here & there from Paris, and started covering the walls of public buildings with pictures of peons and capitalists...
Between roundups, Rancher Williams sticks close to his natty, tile-roofed ranch house, pokes about his green alfalfa fields, hunts a little, and thinks up ideas for Out Our Way. When he has a batch of drawings finished (he has a hard time keeping ahead of his deadline) he ships them off in a swanky Cadillac 40 miles over rutted dirt roads to Prescott, where they are mailed to the NEA syndicate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio...
...solarium for doctors, a drug-manufacturing department, laundries, a printing shop. Each ward, a complete unit with special treatment rooms, bathrooms, doctor's office, nurses' cage and pantry, contains only twelve beds. The 50 operating rooms and delivery rooms are paved and walled in soft blue tile, contain unique, explosion-proof operating lamps which Dr. D'Aunoy designed. He also planned a pneumatic tube system between operating rooms and pathology department, to bring surgeons quick microscopic reports on tissues while they are operating...
Certainly piquant is the tile of the P. B. H. Conference on a Government Career. But there will be nothing intangible about the round table discussion, as Administration leaders take time out to explain their problems. Nor will the effort vanish with winter's last nasty days; already a permanent bureau of information on the possibilities of a Capitol Hill career is promised...
...also proud of having in its ancient vicinity one of Florida's newest and most successful tourist-getters: the big Marineland aquarium recently built 18 miles to the south of it. It is fond of broadcasting superlatives about Marineland's two tanks (of steel, concrete, tile, brick and cement), the biggest and deepest aquarium tanks in the world, the only aquarium cleaned by divers with vacuum cleaners, the only one where some animals are fed under water by hand, the only one where penguins can be seen swimming under water. The Marineland tanks have 200 glass portholes through...