Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to Plans... Silliman College would have a handsome brick front facing the Georgian-federalist Timothy Dwight, tapering off to a forbidding-looking Gothic prison facade to match the present Van-Sheff unit," says the News."... Would that it were possible for Yale to build her latest... in accordance with functional requirements, instead of again indulging in her quaint whims such as that of a gymnasium designed as a medieval fortress or a library as a cathedral...
...winning design is by Richard G. Stein 2G.S.D. who was awarded the $15 first prize in a field of twenty. His entry was a sketch of ivy leaves on a mottled background against a brick facing...
Waverly Village became part of Baltimore in 1888. No slum, it is chiefly inhabited by middle-class families, has an average complement of stores, saloons, movie houses. Old York Road has some tumble-down clapboard houses, but Ellerslie Avenue's brick rows are more typical. The section chosen for the experiment comprises about 1,600 homes in 50 blocks, is bounded on one side by swank Guilford, on the other by Baltimore's Municipal Stadium. In cooperation with the Baltimore Housing Authority, HOLC will make a survey to find out "what is necessary to fortify and secure residential...
...standing within ten yards of a large bomb will be torn to pieces, and the pieces thrown for hundreds of yards. A brick wall is not merely knocked down. It is shattered into a hail of projectiles which may kill people at a great distance. At a still greater distance the blast is translated into a wave of sound, but a sound like that of the last trumpet which literally flattens out everything in front of it. ... It is the last sound that many people ever hear, even if they are not killed, because their eardrums are burst...
...monarch. As the Duke of Clarence, he bestowed his ardors on a Mrs. Jordan, an actress, to whom he was faithful for many years and who bore him twelve children. At Teddington, not far from London, he used for his extraordinary menage a charming and spacious 18th Century brick palace. When the death of his niece, Princess Charlotte, moved him up to second place as a regal candidate, he kicked Mrs. Jordan out. After ascending the throne, he lived in the Teddington palace with his queen, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen...