Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engine-wiper, from $10,000 to $25,000, because of extra duties as minister in charge of unemployment. Prominent Laborites agitated last week to increase also the salaries of the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, at present barely sufficient to pay the expenses of their official red brick residences on Downing Street...
...grandstands were hot. The 2½-mile brick speedway was baking. The audience of 160,000 sweltered. But around and around the track droned 33 little automobiles, each driven by a man cool of nerve and body, competitor in the annual 500-mile Memorial Day motor race at Indianapolis-longest, most racking of U. S. motor contests...
...activity of engineers in their drilling for hard pan back of Gore Hall indicates the approach of the House Plan in the shape of brick and mortar. Harvard men, however they may feel about the desirability of the Plan, can not help realizing that the University's social experiment is no longer a paper theory. Unit number one will shortly arise a reality...
...Pennsylvania had come the loudest demands for added protection for industry. Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association and G. O. P. campaign cash-collector extraordinary, had been in the forefront of an old-style drive for higher rates (TIME, March 25). He had secured duties on brick and cement, had permanently pegged pig iron at $1.12½ per ton. But he still sounded dissatisfied when he said: "The few raises fall short of meeting the requirements ... of Pennsylvania's industries along lines indicated in the Republican platform adopted at Kansas City." He intimated that provisions for valuation...
Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson comes from Chicago. In the House, he votes Dry. Last week he was prisoner-at-the-bar in the squat, red-brick U. S. District Court at Key West, Fla. Judge Halstead L. Ritter peered curiously at Conggressman Michaelson through large, judicial spectacles...