Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground floor being used for students' rooms. The building can accommodate 55 men and five tutors, two of whom will be resident tutors. The students rooms are arranged in 23 double suites and nine single suites. The building is in the Georgian style of architecture, and is predominantly brick and white limestone...
...only in Rome were these words spoken last week. In Cleveland's ugly, red brick St. John's Cathedral another bishop was added to the apostolic succession. Present for the occasion was the scholarly, active Archbishop of Cincinnati, Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, whose fame in the Midwestern hierarchy is exceeded only by that of Chicago's George William Cardinal Mundelein and rivalled only by that of Cleveland's own Bishop Joseph Schrembs,† who was in charge of the U. S. section of the Dublin Eucharistic Congress last June. Present also were the new Archbishop...
Thereupon he put the box in a hole in the wall of the new building, and handed a marked brick to England's Astronomer-Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson. The Astronomer-Royal patted some mortar on the brick and with it plugged the hole-in-the-wall which contained the copper box. saying: "As is the custom of godfathers. I place the care of this magnificent observatory into the hands of its most capable parents...
...bust of "Ned" Doheny, in naval uniform, is now on view in a brand new brick & limestone Romanesque building on the Southern California campus. The clan Doheny assembled to see the building dedicated last week on the first day of the U. S. C. year. It was the Edward L. Doheny Junior Memorial Library, built with $1,100,000 donated from their many millions by Mr. & Mrs. Doheny Senior, Mrs. Leigh Battson, who is "Ned" Doheny's widow, and his children Lucy Estelle, Edward III, William Henry, Patrick Anson, Timothy Michael. After many a speech...
Meanwhile six more men had entered the house. They carried boxes of heavy equipment. Neighbors thought they were only 'leggers. In the second-floor parlor they sawed a three-foot square in the hardwood floor. Beneath that they pierced 18 inches of brick. Acetylene torches next cut through a layer of steel. Through the hole beneath yawned the vault of Koch & Co., real estate firm, on the ground floor...