Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search for the site of man's first civilized home narrowed down last week. The Iraq Government proudly claimed the oldest agricultural village in the world, recently discovered (see map). Its ruins, presumably about 8,000 years old, lay near Hassuna, about 250 miles from Baghdad. The mud-brick houses had rooms some seven feet square. Mixed in the debris were fragments of jars moulded 6,000 years before Christ. In graves lay remains of people not unlike modern...
...soaked shambles of the broken city, where advances were measured by paving stones and victories by buildings. Saburov managed to fall in love with an equally heroic young nurse and to strangle a Nazi spy with one hand while buried up to his neck in the rubble of a brick wall. But Days and Nights is neither a love story nor a routine bang-bang adventure yarn. Its high emotional charge is due to Author Simonov's sensitive observation of the people who fought in Stalingrad's streets. Russians have already bought 400,000 copies. The Book...
...enough to remember the typical 1920 manufacturing plant -and how it looked "like a shoe-box with a saltcellar in front of it?" There was a great long brick mill (the plant) standing behind a very small management building (the office...
...went into it in 1396. It rang long & loud on liberation night. Part of the Japanese false front of modernism, they learned, was a race track beyond the East Gate. The Japs took their horses away, so it is closed. Near the South Gate, called Nam Tai Moon, the brick railway station was seething with refugees and other travelers. Nobody was northbound-that way lay Manchuria. Only a handful of Russian liaison officers-no troops-had appeared in Seoul. When one carload neared the city, they were politely turned back...
...earthquakes: he designed the Imperial to float like a flexible collection of barges on Tokyo's soft mud. The floors were cantilevered on supports which carried them the way waiters carry trays on one hand. To keep the center of gravity low, the outer walls (double shells of brick poured solid with concrete) tapered toward the top. All piping and wiring was laid free of the construction in concretecovered trenches. An immense pool guarded the building from the fires which usually follow Japanese quakes...