Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further investigations into University buildings revealed that difficulties with the bricks similar to those found in the Business School are also causing expensive repairs to the new Biological Institute, completed in the spring of 1932. In the case of the Biological Institute serious leaks were found to have developed in the summer of 1932 causing almost a foot of water to collect on the ground floor of the building. Investigation revealed the cause of the leaks to be improper waterproofing in the brick laying and the mortar between the bricks themselves. Last summer work was pushed to remove...
...virtual resetting of the bricks which was begun early last summer was completed only last week, most of the work being done by the Maintenance Department at the expense of the University. During the summer the Department is understood to have had 15 masons working at six dollars a day for three months on this and other repair jobs of a similar nature. At this price the sum would come to something over $8000 for the summer's repairs on defective brick laying...
...their victim, Brooke Hart, 22. son of San Jose's wealthiest department store owner. On the San Mateo bridge across a corner of San Francisco Bay, the car stopped. The three men got out. One of them from behind smashed Brooke Hart's skull with a brick. Together they bound his limp body with baling wire, stole his wallet, lifted him over the bridge railing, heaved him into San Francisco...
Although in many respects unique, this happy interest in celestial affairs at Galileo is but typical of the modern trend in American secondary education. Everywhere the old and wornout standards are being stripped away. The little red schoolhouse has given place to an imposing edifice in brick, equipped with swimming pools, hot lunch counters, and the latest thing in classroom furniture. Tedious studies have been sugared over by electric maps, bolls, lantern shows, and similar kindergarten bric-a-brac. Latin and Greek, classic burden to the juvenile scholar's soul, are dying slowly away. After all, they are dead languages...
...William Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau, grew to be known as one of the wildest of modernists. Georges Rouault is not an easy artist for the uninitiate who are either baffled or enraged by his splashes of paint, the occasionally grotesque appearance of his great clown's heads, his brick-colored nudes. But no knowing art student could enter the Rouault exhibition in Manhattan last week without recognizing with what extraordinary skill this same splashing of paint recreates the luminous greens, reds and blues of the stained glass with which Rouault first worked, without feeling the Byzantine richness...