sanitarium
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Italianate-Mission in style, boxy with projecting cornice and flat roofline, it belonged to the developer, who in 1925 turned his private villa into a sanitarium and orphanage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
“My father was a psychiatrist with his own sanitarium in Beacon, N.Y., where I grew up,” he said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
A decrepit drive-in movie theater screens a 1947 noir spoof, “My Favorite Brunette,” for seemingly no other reason, possibly, than that Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour get locked up in a sanitarium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
In 1891, Post, then a 37-year-old farm equipment salesman, stayed at John Harvey Kellogg’s sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
It faced in the direction of Bellevue, the sanitarium where Mary Todd Lincoln was forced to stay for a while in the 1870s.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Other trained nurses become matrons and housekeepers in private hospitals, sanitaria, and colleges.
From The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance by Willison, Marjory MacMurchy, Lady
Now—only just now—the physicians are doing the same, and establishing out-of-door sanitaria for consumption.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
For the sake of the good opinion society would maintain of itself, it sends the latter nowadays to hospitals, sanitaria, or their equivalents, where protection for itself without punishment for them may be practised.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
A similar disregard for drainage has ingeniously managed to convert into pest-houses Simla and other Himalayan sanitaria.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The Greeks built combination temples and sanitaria, to which the afflicted resorted.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.
In a totalitarian society suffocating under a U.S. trade embargo and the post-Soviet economic crisis known as the Special Period, the sanitariums offered community, regular meals and air conditioning.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, tuberculosis patients sought refuge in sanitariums.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2022
Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
After graduating in 1953, she worked in sanitariums while completing a master’s degree in fine arts at BU, awarded in 1957.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2021
Besides He had the trouble of an invalid wife Who went from hospitals to sanitariums, And traveled south, and went in search of health.
From Domesday Book by Masters, Edgar Lee
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