Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court house square. They upturned four National Guard trucks, set them afire. Then they stormed the 75-year-old court house, sloshed gasoline all over its floors, touched it off with matches. Firemen never had a chance. The mob stood guard over their work until the large brick building was a roaring furnace. The court house burned all night. All county records were destroyed. Shelbyville businessmen, aroused at the havoc their country cousins and excitable fellow townsmen had wrought, held a mass meeting, formed a vigilante corps. Dr. Moody told newshawks that he thought that Lillian was not pregnant...
...Negro college has ever grown rich, and Lincoln has fared even worse than such younger and bigger institutions as Howard, Hampton, Tuskegee, and Fisk. Its plant consists of a cluster of grimy brick buildings fronting on the busy Baltimore Pike. Lately President Johnson and his trustees have been pondering two facts: 1) the centre of U. S. Negro population, fed by the teeming black sections of Washington, New York and Philadelphia, has been shifting rapidly northward and eastward; 2) Lincoln is the only first-rate Negro university north of the Mason & Dixon Line, east of Ohio's Wilberforce...
...Armour & Co. (TIME, Dec. 25 1933). answered "by cable from Paris: EXPOSITION MUST TAKE PLACE ON SCHEDULE. At once his trusted Union Stock Yards President Arthur George Leonard, a founder of the Exposition, went to work to build a bigger, better fireproof edifice in six short months?a steel, brick & concrete modern-Gothic structure, three-storied and three-winged, with a vast grey-beamed, chromium-trimmed arena in its centre. "This," boasted President Leonard, "will be America's new Temple of Agriculture...
Although Dr. Rhine felt that these results added one more brick to his edifice of proof that extrasensory perception is a reality, he concluded that the medium's ability was by no means extraordinary. Her best scores in telepathy were high, but had been surpassed by one of Dr. Rhine's own students, a young man with no pretensions to special psychic equipment. Strengthened was Dr. Rhine's conviction that sight without seeing is a natural and commonplace faculty, exercised by "the reception of an unknown form of energy in an unknown manner" but nevertheless "an integral part of mental...
...Columbia dedicated new South Hall, a block-shaped brick-&-limestone library, built with $4,000,000 from Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, designed as a "working laboratory" for scholars...