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Quonset hut

[kwon-sit] / ˈkwɒn sɪt /


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After 50 years, Hodges still owns the Quonset hut that houses the club.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

The Quonset hut, now painted vivid green, never was truly a museum and is currently used as convenient storage for the cafe, though on the outside, it still dresses the part.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2024

At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, there are approximately 76,000 containers of ethanol specimens, mostly stored in a World War-II-era Quonset hut, which is made from corrugated steel and is uninsulated.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2023

I remember standing in the back of the Quonset hut that was the Masters press building and seeing Dan pause from his typewriter and slowly look around the room.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 6, 2020

I remember standing at an end window of our Quonset hut for a very long time, looking oid at the slanting, dreary rain, my trigger finger itching imperceptibly, if at all.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger




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