sanitarium
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She even adopted a Ukrainian teenager, Filip Holovnya, from among the children taken to the sanitarium.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
By the time he was released, on May 26, his children had been flown to a sanitarium called Poliany, a strictly guarded institution near Moscow.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
The Soledar mine had become a tourist attraction, complete with a sanitarium built around the unproven health benefits of breathing salt-infused air.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Doctors urged him to enter a sanitarium for treatment, but Slim refused and headed for the desert, although doctors warned him he would be dead in a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
Hayden was discreetly driven from the park in one of the fair’s innovative English ambulances with quiet rubber tires and placed in a sanitarium for a period of enforced rest.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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And yet they have, within two days of sharp ride, that finest of sanitaria, the Hismá, which extends as far north and south as they please to go.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
There are many sanitaria on the Continent and in America where this form of "bathing" is practised.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
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 Louis Berman 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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
The Greeks built combination temples and sanitaria, to which the afflicted resorted.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
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
In fact, the last tenants used it for one of these rest sanitariums.
From The Common Man by George Luther Schelling
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