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Word: bricked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long bridge was the task of American paratroopers who were landed south of the town. They found the Germans in command of both the north and south ends of the coveted bridge. Close by the bridge was open space-the tree-lined Hunerpark. Commanding its sweep was a red-brick tower: old Fort Belvedere, a relic of Charlemagne's reign. The lower floors of Belvedere had in peacetime housed a tea room, its tower had been a tourist lookout. Now Belvedere was a fort again. Out of its doors and windows stuck the ugly snouts of German antitank guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Battle of Desperation | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...wood was discovered in 1934 during the reconstruction of the Old Library of Emmanuel into an additional dining hall. Workmen on the job were stripping away the south wall when they hit into a massive oak panel, hidden by the centuries and nine inches of plaster and brick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORIC OAKEN BLOCK VIEWED JOHN HARVARD | 9/29/1944 | See Source »

...State, was that the Big Three, in peace as in war, have a common aim. The 39 delegates had nothing much left to do but wait for final nods from their respective Governments. Then the Chinese, who have been watching intently from just outside the Dumbarton Oaks' high brick wall, will move in formally and make the plan fit a Big Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Forward Step | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, back from his tour of the South Pacific, rented an 18-room, brick and timber house in Greens Farms, Conn., a quiet section of Westport, convenient to the four United Aircraft Corp. plants where he works as a consulting engineer. The house, on 14 acres of land, faces a road, is only 200 yards from his nearest neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Discoveries, Homebodies, French Footnotes | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Fantastic carvings and the Oriental grandeur of its appearance contrast with the simplicity of the Colonial red brick by which it is surrounded on all sides, and add a touch of Kiang Province, home of the monument for over a century, to the otherwise austere College Yard. Situated just west of Widener Library, about midway down the length of the building, the white marble structure is well preserved despite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEIRD CHINESE DRAGON IN YARD ONCE OWNED BY CH'ING DYNASTY | 9/12/1944 | See Source »

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