Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owen Stratton, his opponent, is 75. He lives in a brick house at the foot of the Continental Divide, practices medicine when it suits him, collects his accounts if he feels his patients are able to afford it, devotes eight hours a day to reading and quoting Adam Smith, Paracelsus', John Stuart Mill...
...second and third floors of the brick building will contain special offices and file rooms for the Mil Sci instructors as well as the Muzzle Blast office, while the first floor will be occupied by the Cadet Headquarters and library, in addition to the recruiting office for the Enlisted Reserve. The headquarters are complete with a game room in the basement which will be used for battery or battalion meetings and parties...
...Reginald painted a scorching picture of Burmese scorched earth, too. "Absolutely devastated. . . . Every town in the path of the Japanese Army completely destroyed [by sabotage]. There is hardly one brick left standing upon another in the whole of Burma." Author of this devastation was a Royal Dutch-Shell petroleum engineer named Walter Leslie Forster. He had done such a job of smashing that "experts believe some of the oil wells will never produce oil again and it will be a long time before the Japs get any oil from the rest. At Rangoon we did what we could to destroy...
...reporter's life is a happy one. And the reporter's life is open to all candidates for the News Board of the CRIMSON when the Sophomore competition begins at 7:30 o'clock Monday night at the beautiful red brick building on Plympton Street...
...Committee members, Lawyer John K. Howard and H. Wendell Endicott (Endicott-Johnson shoes), visited Britain last year. They were impressed by the Home Guard School conducted by Guerrilla Tom Wintringham for the British War Office (TIME, May 25). Last week came the result: on the velvet-lawn-and-colonial-brick campus of Middlesex School at Concord, Major General Sherman Miles, Commander of the First Corps Area, abetted by the Committee, opened a tactical school. Purpose: to teach guerrilla-warfare methods to State Guards. The Commandant is Lawyer Howard, now a lieutenant colonel...