Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin the first modern (1859) building built of stone instead of brick was the Börse, or Exchange of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce. Last week such big issues as A. E. G. (German "General Electric"), I. G. Farbenindustrie (Dye Trust), Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) and Siemens & Halske soared...
...trousered members of the Shanghai Gold Stock Exchange on Kiukiang Road bought silver by the simple method of selling gold. How desperate is China's state is well illustrated by the ugly rumors heard in Singapore concerning the affairs of Tan Kah Kee, great rubber, pineapple, biscuit and brick tycoon, patron of Amoy University. Once a coolie, he became a multimillionaire, is now thought to be heavily in debt, frantically trying to incorporate his private affairs...
...went back to Exeter, whence he was graduated in 1888, strolled about the elm-shaded Yard, greeted friends and classmates, some 2,000, who like him had come back to the old school to celebrate her 150th birthday. From the Yard Mr. Lament could not see the modern, red-brick Lament Infirmary, whose crack contagious ward is an echo of the time Mr. Lamont had scarlet fever at Exeter.* But he could see the modest basement offices of the school paper, the Exonian, where his sons, Corliss and Austin ("Egg"), spent much of their time while at Exeter. His reminiscing...
...succeeded in obtsining a large group of men to take part Music selected from the season's reperfence of the Club will compose the program it is expected that the Quadrangle will afford extremely faverable accuses for the singing since the sound will be bounded on all sides by brick walls, and not affected by but one wall ss is the case when the Club performs on the steps of Widener...
...East. In 1934 (aged 70) she will retire from her presidency. Other mission examiners will be: Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard (chairman); President Clarence Augustus Barbour of Brown University; Dean Frederic Campbell Woodward of the University of Chicago; Dr. William Pierson Merrill of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church; Professor Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford College; Dean Henry Spencer Houghton of the University of Iowa College of Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson of the University of Indiana School of Medicine; President Arlo Ayres Brown of Drew University, Madison, N.J.; Dean Albert Russell Mann of New York State...