Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Displaying remarkable mushroom growth to residents of Cambridge since its founder laid the cornerstone four months ago, the white granite Littauer Center of Public Administration, first building in the University to feature granite and brick construction, has passed the two-thirds mark toward completion...
...spotting new outbreaks. Ships in Puget Sound used fog horns as the pall from the biggest fire of all, the worst in British Columbia's history, swept unchecked over 100,000 acres of Vancouver Island. Millions of feet of felled timber were consumed as well as standing trees. Brick-dry, the forests virtually exploded...
Most conspicuous of these, in the daily news if not in person, was long-faced Harry Lloyd Hopkins, working in shirt-sleeves at his plebeian office on the top (ninth) floor of an old yellow-brick structure which houses the Works Progress Administration. Because more than 8,000,000 U. S. persons look to WPA for their toil-won bread, and because $1,425,000,000 is a lot of Government money to have to spend in an election year, Harry Hopkins has inevitably become regarded as a prime mover-and prime target-on the national political scene. To himself...
...cinema stars belong to a social class of their own which has no equivalent in England. This does not inconvenience Gracie Fields who prefers to live in a style more in keeping with her humble origins. In London, her most ostentatious possession is a red brick house on Finchley Road. She sold her Rolls-Royce because "it was too posh for me,'' rides in a Buick...
...Brick, tile...