Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black rainy clouds hung low over Philadelphia; Sunday afternoon was one long twilight that deepened steadily into gloomy night. In the gathering dusk, over the city's brick-paved streets jounced cabs from the three-day-old airport, from the dismal cavern of old Broad Street Station. Packed in the cabs were thousands of men whose minds were as wind-tossed and gloomy as the night...
...nowhere in Washington was the tension more concentrated than in the pinkish-brick British Embassy that stood on its hill below the Naval Observatory. And it was concentrated there on the calm, portly, six-foot figure of the British Ambassador, Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Karr), Marquess of Lothian, Baron Ker of Newbottle, and holder of five other hereditary titles which, come British victory or British defeat, were not likely to mean much in the future...
...have been running at or near a deficit. For the latter (railroads, etc.) could ride the boom a long time (with a leverage quotient seductive to investors) before reaching the onerous tax brackets. The more efficient a corporation has been, the more its capital consists of brains instead of brick - in short, the more successful a corporation has been in terms of its normal rate of return, the more burdensome would be its share of war's cost...
Today the Lahey Clinic occupies a large, four-story brick building, is staffed by 56 doctors, who perform some 7,500 operations a year in all fields except obstetrics and ophthalmology. An excellent general surgeon, Dr. Lahey has colored movies taken of his operations, shows them at medical meetings all over...
...Washington (in charge of press relations), then German Consul in New Orleans, before he went to Boston in 1938. As Consul in Boston, one of his first acts was to move his office from the dowdy building it then occupied in the business district, take over a handsome brick home on Beacon Hill, where he discreetly entertains Boston's Brahmin elect...