Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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when he became president of the University of Maine (1922), to Ann Arbor, Mich, when he became president of the University of Michigan (1925), to Bar Harbor, where he became director of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in 1929. At Bar Harbor, in a small building whose solid brick walls exclude stray mice, he produces 150,000 mice a year, sells 50,000 to other scientific institutions for research, anatomizes 25,000 to analyze their inherited characteristics, especially their susceptibility to cancer...
Barrels of sorghum molasses that the soldiers could not carry off were overturned in the basement and this syrup scraped from the brick floor was the family's only sweetening for some weeks thereafter...
...church in St. Paul's Cathedral ("The Parish Church of the British Empire") go the King & Queen on May 24, humbly wearing "plain clothes." Next evening they dine at red brick No. 10 Downing Street with the Prime Minister & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin ("The King Makers"). The King was born Dec. 14, 1895, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin has ordered "Celebration of the King's Birthday on June 9," * and this may be said to close the Coronation Season. The London Season continues for swanksters until the Cowes Regatta which ends...
...enables it to be called, is about three miles distant from Boston, with which it communicates by horse cars. It presents a village-like appearance, as most of its houses are on circled by large gardens. Harvard College stands in its midst a cluster of very hideous rectangular red brick buildings, with two or three others, less unsightly, of grey stone. Its library is rich in old historical works relating to America, but scarcely any manuscripts' in fact manuscripts are scarcely to be found in any public collections in the United States. The library is suffering from lack of funds...
...local of A. F. of L.'s International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers, whose President Daniel J. Tobin was chairman of the Democratic Labor Committee in last year's Presidential campaign. His electrical and baking cases, along with his moves against poultry, trucking, garment and used-brick rackets, typified the kind of thing that Prosecutor Dewey is really after-the racket that preys on law-abiding businessmen. But not until the restaurant racket trial began last week did he enter in open court the kind of battle whose outcome would indicate eventual success or failure...