Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When scowling square-jowled Prussians wreaked their will upon the little red brick towns of Belgium, the iron of despair entered into many a Belgian soul. With victory came a desire for justice, if not for revenge. Now, for many months, a series of court martial proceedings have been going on at Brussels against German officials and men charged with committing "atrocities" during...
...Czecho-Slovakia, workmen quarrying glacial silt for a brick company uncovered the family tomb of Aurignacian mammoth-hunters of 800 generations (20,000 years) ago. There were 12 adult skeletons and eight of children, reposing under a layer of stones (protection from beasts) within a mortuary chamber formed by walls of mammoths' bones. Mammoth lower jaws constituted one wall, shoulder blades a palisade opposite. It was the largest single collection of prehistoric human remains ever discovered, and admirably preserved...
...only recently that the architects in charge of cloistering the Yard, feeling that some contrast to the brick red and slate gray of the new dormitories was necessary, inspected some eighteenth century prints of the Yard, now hanging in the President's office in University Hall and discovered that the tympanum of Holden and the clock on Massachusetts were there depicted as blue...
Cities. Descending from his train, the traveler finds that the stucco-plastered brick buildings of Russia have been smartly replastered; and have lost the ragged-wallpaper air of early Communist days. Many new buildings are going up: two and three story structures, laboriously raised bit by bit by clever workmen, as in the days of Peter the Great. The Orthodox Churches, generally seem well cared for by their parishioners, despite Government opposition...
...similar in shape to Gore and Standish Halls, with to main building at the north and two wings to the main building in the south forming a court, 100 by 121 feet, open towards the river. It will be built of similar materials to the present Freshman halls: Harvard brick with wood and limestone trim...