Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cyrus Hall McCormick invented his reaper in the forge shop of his Virginia farm and laid the groundwork for Harvester's greatness. Cyrus McCormick plugged his reapers with written testimonials, sold them on the installment plan ($30 down, $90 on terms). In 1847 he built a three-story brick factory in Chicago. By the time he died in 1884, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. was one of the largest in the field. Even after it became the International Harvester Co. 18 years later, through a merger with its principal competitors, it remained "a family affair...
Algebra at Five. Today, in a faded yellow-brick-and-plaster house in Adyar, Maria Montessori is hard at work. She lectures in Italian two or three times a week; Mario translates into English for her. She is surer than ever of one thing: "The child is capable of achieving culture at an age hitherto unsuspected." She now teaches arithmetic at 3½, algebra at five, and finds that eight-year-olds learn algebra quicker than 14-year-olds, for they consider it a game, instead of something to dread. An 18-month-old child, she says, is "perhaps happiest...
Moving day was celebrated at an evening service in Washington's red brick First Baptist Church. On hand for the occasion in his regular pew (ninth from the front) was President Harry Truman, who spoke to the congregation from the floor before the altar: "It is a great day in the history of the United States and of Washington. . . . We hope that you will take to heart the prayer in the invocation for a just and honorable peace. . . . We are getting closer all the time . . . but we must have the support of all those organizations that stand...
...monthly visits to tree-shaded Coshocton, where his wife and his unmarried daughter Clara still live in a green-shuttered, red-brick house, Bill Green enjoys the aura which is the reward of famous...
...what is referred to as "the late unpleasantness between the states," 9,000 students had matriculated at the colonnades of the Jefferson rotunda. Of these 2,481, almost 30 percent, fell at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and many are buried within the famed serpentine brick walls of the 500-acre campus...