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clean room
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  • I first met Madelyn "Maddie" Parlier in the "clean room" of Standard Motor Products' fuel-injector assembly line in Greenville, South Carolina.†   (source)
  • "We'll need a clean room," Steve said, looking at all the spalled metal in the casing.†   (source)
  • They took me to a warm, clean room and ordered me to strip, which I did.†   (source)
  • It was a small clean room, which she kept securely padlocked because of the "nigras."†   (source)
  • The purity of their features, and of the clean linen and the clean rooms, and of the night, the snow, the stars, the moon, surged through his heart in a single wave of meaning, moving him to a joyful sense of the triumphant purity of being.†   (source)
  • He was used to working on circuitry in a clean room and using high-powered microscopes and waldoes.†   (source)
  • THE JPL Spacecraft Assembly Facility, known as the "clean room," was the little-known birthplace of the most famous spacecraft in Mars exploration history.†   (source)
  • Further, the problems of "clean rooms" of industry, where dust and bacteria were kept at a minimum, and the "sterile chambers" under study at Bethesda, were also major.†   (source)
  • To Kara's left, a long glass wall looked into a clean room where blue-capped, white-jacketed, masked technicians worked.†   (source)
  • The entire machine—like most machines in the clean room—sits inside a large metal-and-plexiglass box with sensors to make sure that Maddie removes her hands from the machine before it runs.†   (source)
  • Maddie was hired back and assigned to the fuel-injector clean room, where she continued to impress people by working hard, learning quickly, and displaying a good attitude.†   (source)
  • Metal is cut into a precise shape in the "unclean" part of the factory and is then washed in a huge industrial washing machine to remove any bits of dirt, flakes of skin, or other contaminants, and, pristine, enters the clean room.†   (source)
  • To show me the difference between the two, Tony takes me from Luke's station through an air lock and into Standard's bright-white clean room—about a quarter the size of the dirtier, louder factory floor—where dozens of people in booties, hairnets, and smocks, most of them women, stand at a series of workstations.†   (source)
  • She took him to the small clean room and lit a candle for him.†   (source)
  • Into the bleak, clean room the springfilled air blew in fainting gusts.†   (source)
  • It was a bright, spotlessly clean room, with whitewashed walls and a big skylight.†   (source)
  • I try to give 'em a square deal, decent wages, and a clean room, and reasonable time off.†   (source)
  • He took it into the pleasant, clean room to Polly.†   (source)
  • With spurious cheerfulness she announced everywhere, "I guess I'm a born spinster," and "No one will ever marry a plain schoolma'am like me," and "You men, great big noisy bothersome creatures, we women wouldn't have you round the place, dirtying up nice clean rooms, if it wasn't that you have to be petted and guided.†   (source)
  • Why, I should die comfortably in their own hospital—in a warm, clean room, with an attentive doctor—probably much more comfortably than I should at home.†   (source)
  • We did not get much to eat, nor that which was very good; but we had a good clean room, from the windows of which we could see what was going on in the street, which was very much better than though we had been placed in one of the dark, damp cells.†   (source)
  • A clean room, a hot dish for dinner, and a bottle of not absolutely poisonous wine, are all I want tonight.†   (source)
  • Within, he will remember wide, clean rooms, where nothing ever seems to be doing or going to be done, where everything is once and forever rigidly in place, and where all household arrangements move with the punctual exactness of the old clock in the corner.†   (source)
  • 'On my second visit Linton seemed in lively spirits; and Zillah (that is their housekeeper) made us a clean room and a good fire, and told us that, as Joseph was out at a prayer-meeting and Hareton Earnshaw was off with his dogs — robbing our woods of pheasants, as I heard afterwards — we might do what we liked.†   (source)
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