Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building is 188 feet long, 66 feet wide, and 40 feet in wall height. The exterior will be finished with brick, and the roof will be covered with red slates taken from the old Hemenway and will be surmounted by a lantern carrying the weathervane of the former building...
...Airport has since 1926 been a fliers' nightmare. Landing or taking off in the big multi-motored planes that for the last decade have carried most of the U. S. air commerce, pilots have had to duck and dodge three 800-foot radio towers, a clump of tall brick factory chimneys, a snaking Potomac lagoon, a blimp hangar, the U. S. Experimental Farm and, until a month ago, a highway that bisected the airport's 4,200-foot North-South runway. Last summer airline pilots, exasperated by years of shilly-shallying by politicos with options on or interests...
...certain indication that the House Plan is a success is the tremendous growth of rivalry between each of the seven red-brick units. This feeling, which some like to associate with the growth of nationalism in continental Europe, has recently taken on amazing proportions, so much so that Mill Street now serves a function very comparable to that of the Rhine River in keeping bitter enemies from one another's throat...
...there you don't find any of Cambridge with its everpresent carbon monoxide from cars, with the soot from factories close-by, with all the dirt in the streets and yard cops and pan-handlers, with slums lying close to luxurious red-brick houses, with parking spaces and no-parking places, with rearing trucks at night and clattering milk cans inevitable in the morning--all these things don't exist in that wonderful country where men are men and won't borrow from the government, where the country is green and the roads bad, where girls giggle in the streets...
...sons not to believe everything that everybody tells them. Today the nation is beset on all sides by people and interests of every shade and color, bent on selling them something--be it an idea for the economic salvation of the nation or a simple old-fashioned gold brick. The appeal to people's emotions is often so subtly made that decisions of momentous importance to the nation are governed by whim and whimsy, simply because clever propaganda deprives people of their power to reason and think...