Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...architectural profession is striving to carry on, to believe in beauty, and to eat during a period of no building. The Architects of Chicago, having no outlet through steel and stone and brick, created with ideas and canvas and paint, a Latin Quarter Fête. We employed 75 draftsmen, many of whom had been out of work for months. Many of these men were Beaux Arts men-some of them Paris Prize men. They worked creatively and happily, for a small daily wage, in order that a greater number might be employed. These men created the loveliest scene ever...
...Room of University Hall, the central nucleus was more limited than it is at present. The number of regular attendants has grown. On a basis of the results observable at present, it may be concluded, interest in the Memorial Church has gone farther than a mere inspection of the brick and mortar, or a glimpse at the towering spire. A great church must arise from the undivided, unsollicited interest and support of a numerous and living congregation. It is in these respects that the Harvard Memorial Church is creating a distinguished history...
...member last year at Brookings Institution in Washington, where he took his doctorate in economics. Dr. Hill picked Port Royal for his college chiefly because of its proximity to Washington. It was comparatively simple to arrange leases on Port Royal dwellings, two colonial manors with wooded grounds, the old brick Town Hall and an old bank building. These would serve for students' living and eating quarters, lecture rooms, a theatre and a place for Port Royal College's library of 5,000 borrowed volumes. Townspeople agreed to take in roomers for as little as $2.50 per month...
...home more befitting the court's dignity and importance. In 1926 Congress passed the necessary legislation, authorizing an appropriation of $9,700,000. Chief Justice Taft selected a seven-acre site across the Capitol Plaza and beside the Library of Congress. Condemned and demolished was an old red brick building in which Congress sat after the Capitol's burning, Confederate prisoners were housed during the Civil War and, later, the National Woman's Party made its headquarters...
Temporary shelter for the Institute of Advanced Study will be Princeton's new Henry Burchard Fine Mathematical Hall, a red brick & grey limestone collegiate Gothic structure. Its stained glass windows record the Einstein relativity formulas. Over a fireplace in the common room is engraved in German an Einstein epigram "God is clever, but not dishonest...