Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concern with the Dartmouth visit that years have made impervious to such things as elections, international issues, or tattered victory records. The invasion by a kindred student body brings with it opportunity to throw open dormitory and club doors, to renew acquaintance, to exchange opinion, to receive eulogies or brick-bats. Such an inclusively important feature of the fall could not be disregarded. It will not be. The gamble of the ticket draw and the subsequent seats in the wooden stands are minor hazards that will affect only the undergraduates. They add actually to the zest of the occasion...
...building show the main entrance on Harvard Street with stores along Quincy Square and Massachusetts Avenue. The exterior has not been definitely settled upon but it is thought that for the first two stories it will be composed of stone and above that of stone and brick...
John Coolidge, 22, finished the first week of his business career as file-and-claim-clerk in the New Haven offices (ugly yellow brick building) of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; salary, $30 a week; hours, 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Said he: "I like...
...IXth Olympiad in Amsterdam, Holland, last week. It was he who was chiefly responsible for the revival of modern Olympiades in 1896. "Once again it's America against the world."-Typical statement in U. S. newspapers. And so the IXth Olympiad opened in Amsterdam's red brick stadium in the presence of Prince Consort Henry and Master of Ceremonies Baron A. Schimmelpenninck Van der Oye of Doorn. There was a parade of 44 nations, 4,250 athletes, beginning with the Greeks and continuing alphabetically. Cuba was represented by a lone white man; Haiti by a lone Negro. Egyptians...
...been raised from an experiment to a county industry. Were more farmers like Flax Grower Raskob, the U. S. Department of Agriculture would not need to keep repeating, stressing its points. Hundreds of keen chemists, bacteriologists, plant pathologists bend busily over microscope and petrie dish in the many mellow brick laboratory buildings of Washington. Eagerly they experiment with farm problems; clearly, carefully they describe new methods, send bulletins to farmers. Recent free advice: "Permanent pastures perpetuate parasites. Change your stock from one pasture to another, and change the kind of stock on the same pasture as far as possible. Follow...