Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington was charming in its Christmas wrapping. But around the Capitol and the buildings of state the charm was only brick-deep...
Bummy, born Abraham Davidoff in the brick jungles of Brooklyn's Brownsville, made his first impact on the world as a boy knish-peddler. In a short time he had all but eliminated competition, not through business acumen but by belting the brains out of other little knish peddlers...
...libraries, only the Library of Congress has more books than Harvard. Almost half of Harvard's 4,702,000 are housed in the Widener Library, a massive, pillared, $2,000,000 building which squats amid more graceful red brick neighbors in the Harvard Yard. But Widener is too big, says President James Bryant Conant. What Harvard needs now, says he, is a smaller, handier library...
...student body (a phrase Dr. Perry hates) has jumped from 572 to 725-and each year Exeter turns down five times as many applicants as it accepts. Dr. Perry will leave Exeter embarrassingly rich-with a $10 million endowment, 33 ,new buildings, most of them handsome Georgian brick, and a faculty that has almost tripled. Exonians credit Dr. Perry's fund-raising talent for the school's prosperity. And in fact the biggest gift ($5 million) came from the late oil millionaire, Edward S. Harkness, benefactor of Harvard and Yale, who was no Exonian-just a friend...
...last, the sky lane over "the Rock Pile" had been fraught with danger. At the Kunming field, a mud-brick Chinese village at one end of the runway snagged so many incoming planes into wreckage that ground crews finally leveled it with bulldozers. At one stage more than 700 crashes-including many bombers and tactical aircraft-were spotted on the map at Search and Rescue headquarters in Chabua. India...