Even in September, once the ceiling fan has stopped rotating, the room immediately begins to heat up.

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We pray that day's end will find us where we need to be, ideally in clean beds under a ceiling fan with a bathroom nearby that's not an offense against nature.

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Often the only cooling source in a manufacturing plant or warehouse was a ceiling fan, with a yellow ribbon tied to the blade so that people could see that it was really going around.

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Yesterday I attended a glitzy kickoff party for the Superfan, a stylish new ceiling fan that uses less than half the electricity of a standard model and might reduce the energy demand in power-starved India that is, if the buyers can withstand its hefty price tag.

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As long as Cuba was not free, she would go on sitting at her computer with her little dog stretched out on the tiles beside her, alert for the telephone, with her front door open and Santa Rita at the ready, and the ceiling fan turning slowly in the smothering air.

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You just dial this thing up to speed like you're turning up the ceiling-fan rheostat.

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Its mesmerizing fan-vaulted ceiling is best appreciated during Evensong when you can listen to the college's celebrated choir as you ponder your place in the universe.

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