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Word: bricked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Construction began eight months ago on the imposing brick mass, of the simplest design inside and out, whose most unique architectural feature are the five-story windows on front and back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joint Library Stores Greater Boston Books | 3/10/1942 | See Source »

Edgewood's station (a twin of Ridley Park's except for some differences in building materials) is a bright, clean-looking, boxlike structure faced with natural-finish redwood and brick, materials expected to keep their looks without maintenance for many years. On its track side, where an 8-ft. overhanging shed roof offers shelter, a huge plate-glass window gives waiting travelers a complete view of all incoming and outgoing trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Stations | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Many movies ago, we were duly convinced that the American schoolmarm is a figure of heroic proportions. It is she, we found, who tirelessly molds our youth and starts it on the familiar path from red-brick school to White House. Always she sacrifices; always she loses her lover; always she is honored at the final fade...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

lowans at first felt insulted by American Gothic, ended by being proud of it. Younger Midwest artists greeted Wood as an emancipator. Wood himself was able to move from his humble residence at the back of a Cedar Rapids funeral parlor to a fine old red-brick house in Iowa City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Iowa's Painter | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Avenue, where in the space of a few blocks stand 14 embassies and legations. Notable remaining Massachusetts Avenue mansions: the unused town house of Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, the four-story house of the President's fifth cousin Alice Longworth, the red-brick mansion of the famed Misses Patten, who once entertained the Prince of Wales, the King of Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Are You a Parasite? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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