Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel. Then it was found that a little lithium lasted a long time because it was being chemically regenerated from its own oxide by the carbon monoxide present in the fuel gas. This discovery the Patent Office refused to believe until U.S. examiners went to the little brick laboratory in Newark, saw with their own eyes how lithium worked. Then they granted broad basic patents...
...next hour was full of our boys parachuting down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from...
There once stood on the site of the Hall, a dwelling built by John Harvard and the meeting house where he preached. Now surrounded by a combination brick wall and wooden fence, the attractively landscaped spot will serve as a recreation center in the heart of Charlestown...
...brick wall encompassing the park contains a series of plaques depicting scenes from early American history, such as the landing of John Winthrop, a governor of Massachusetts and an organizer of the College...
...Rooms can be warmed by "radiant" heating-a carefully placed system of hot air or hot-water pipes concealed behind walls, floors and ceilings. Result: almost no drafts, less dust trouble, more even temperature. In 1929 Washington's handsome red-brick British Embassy installed one of the first radiant systems in the U.S. On party nights guests discovered they could dance longer, with less fatigue...