Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houses are emerging with definite personalities. They collect scholars, or athletes, they give characteristic plays and have their own distinctive inner societies. These are the trimmings which make the House. Without them a House is just a place where a student hangs his hat, a dormitory of brick and mortar, characterless and colorless, where no tradition or sentiment can linger long...
With his wife and two sons. Dr. Compton lives in Chicago in a big brick house filled with souvenirs of their world tour. He does not know the taste of hard liquor, almost never smokes, always offers a cigaret to women visitors. He plays such a bang-up game of tennis that he sometimes has a hard time finding worthy opponents. Several times a month he puts in an evening of mandolin-playing with three friends. When his graduate students have finished an examination, he likes to dine them and take them to the theatre...
Questioned concerning his views of the Townsend Plan the governor replied flatly. "It's crazy. It's a gold brick. I think it will die out. It's too foolish to live. There are approximately ten million people eligible. At the late of $200 a month per person it would about to 24 billion a year, just about half the present income. It would cheapen our money, so that in a year's time the $200 a month would pay just about $30 rent and eventually the money wouldn't be worth anything. If we could get security that cheap...
...years ago Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes Yale psychobiologist, set two male and two female chimpanzees up in housekeeping behind a high brick Yale fence. Assiduously Professor Yerkes watched the two couples grow up, learn the facts of life, breed, raise families. When Yale received money for an Institute of Human Relations building, the Yale chimpanzees got a penthouse because bossing and watching them was the nearest Professor Yerkes could get to what U. S. culture forbade him-bossing and watching a caged collection of men, women & children...
...Vagabond is at Dora's today. Dora lives in a big brick building out Waverley way. There's a tall iron fence around the grounds and in the Spring time the flowers there are very pretty. But Dora doesn't like flowers; and like so many other things about Dora it is a pity. There are uniformed guards about the place seeing that no undesirables come in and those that...