Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother of these sprightly spinsters is Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, lawful widow of the late Richard Marsden Pankhurst, LL.D. She too has dabbled in suffrage and brick throwing but now confines herself to peaceably furthering national reforms...
...During the staging of one more sham battle in his honor, Amir Amanullah watched with round, startled eyes while a 38-ton tank lumberingly butted and crushed down the brick walls of a model fort. Turning away his head, as though in revulsion, His Majesty declared "How unromantic and terrifying is Western warfare...
...three newspapers earned $121,978 or 3.38 times the annual interest requirement of the new bond issue. A ratio of 3.38 between earnings and interest charges would once have been thought barely adequate to induce people to loan money to a manufacturing concern which had great brick & mortar assets. That such a ratio was deemed sufficient to get money for newspapers indicated that bankers now rate the pen as no less mighty than the brick...
When Col. Lindbergh garlanded the Caribbean with Good Will, he especially expected and especially received a felicitous reception in Puerto Rico, the brick-shaped, easternmost member of the Greater Antilles. There he landed among fellow countrymen. Puerto Ricans have been, by act of Congress in 1917 or by act of God (birth) since then, citizens...
...size of Yale College has become an increasingly important question since its enrollment was doubled by the addition of the Ph.B. course in 1919. Alumni who knew the intimate and democratic life of the Old Brick Row and now witness the rise of cliquishness and the disintegration of class unity, decry the changes that have come with expansion...