Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Clarence ("Brick") Owens, 64, burly, veteran American League umpire who retired in 1937 after 35 years of calling 'em (including 22 years in the majors); of a heart ailment; in Chicago...
...across the Pearl River Delta, chasing ragged anti-Communist forces toward the Macao line, Oliveira realized he must behave with greater circumspection than any governor before him. The gunfire of China's war was audible in the Portuguese colony. Through Porta do Cêrco, the massive, yellow brick border gate, poured panicky peasants and deserting Nationalist soldiers, clamoring for haven from the advancing Reds. Black sentries from Mozambique allowed them to pass, first stripping the deserters of weapons. By week's end, over Pak-sha-leang, a Chinese fort overlooking the single road into Macao, the gold...
...sell & leaseback" deal was doubly advantageous. Yale would get a fairly sure tax-exempt income of 5.3% on its investment. Macy's would get its $4,500,000 out of dead brick & mortar into lively working capital, still have the use of the building. Since the rent is taxexempt, it is probably lower than Macy's would have to pay to a taxpaying owner...
Toward sundown one August day Fairservis began to look for a place to camp, and spotted far in the distance what seemed to be a town. As his jeep-borne party headed toward the spot, more & more mud-brick buildings rose into view above the horizon. Shortly they stood before an imposing ruin whose walls surrounded an area of at least 30 square miles, whose buildings must have housed and served a population...
...years after Princeton first engaged Rutgers in a friendly game of "football," a small group of her students decided to form a private social group. Taking over a brick and stone building on Prospect Avenue, they established Ivy Club...