Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war the hotel served as a Coast Guard barracks, forcing the University to redecorate the walls, the marble-floored hallways, and the high-collinged bedrooms with their walnut and brick fireplaces, and to install new wiring, plumbing, windows and doors, and an improved heating system...
...death (TIME, March 1), rival contenders have been fighting a civil war for his desert imamate. An Arab League delegation, out from Cairo to investigate affairs in Yemen, has got no farther than Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia. There the delegates have shivered through the desert nights behind mud-brick walls, warmed only by their camel's-hair abayas (cloaks...
...provost told the boys to wear what they pleased. Mrs. Riddle was outraged, and the provost resigned. Shortly after, in 1944, Founder Riddle shut down Avon and turned over the property to President Roosevelt, a family friend, for use as an Army school for the blind. Its purposely crooked brick walls, sagging stone stairs and mazelike character made it a natural for sightless veterans learning to "braille along...
North Croydon is a cluster of geometrically dreary, determinedly middle-class suburbs on the southwestern fringes of London. Its mile after mile of dull, red brick houses are inhabited by shopkeepers, civil servants, office workers. Since the constituency was formed in 1918, North Croydon has been doggedly Conservative...
...even the frogs used in biology laboratories had jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen. The biggest expenses: more buildings and higher faculty salaries. The University of Washington has started a $20 million building program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...