Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Construction of a $200,000 church on Winthrop Street, behind the Indoor Athletic Building, will begin as soon as demolition of a three-story red brick tenement is completed, it was learned last night. The church, which will serve Lutheran students of Greater Boston, is being built by the congregation of University Lutheran Church...
General public opinion notwithstanding, most students here are quite normal. But the staff of the Grant Study takes exception to the old saw that normal people are the most uninteresting of the lot. In a small brick building on Holyoke Street, next to the Hygiene Department, the Study has been trying "to understand better the adjustment of healthy college people" for the past 11 years...
Dandy Phil, who lives in a brick mansion in the city, devoted himself to managing the lush dining room and the gaming tables of the white colonial Beverly Club, a Costello enterprise which had risen in 1945 in wide-open suburban Jefferson Parish...
After 90 years, Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. had ample reason to be proud of itself. Named for Marcus Whitman, the missionary pioneer of Oregon Territory days, it had a fine old campus of broad lawns and red brick buildings, a small but earnest student body (770), high scholastic standing and a sprinkling of noted alumni (among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas). Whitman took all that for granted. What it was after last week was a football team that could win games in its own league...
...blast and fiery wind spreading out from zero would strip the walls and partitions from reinforced concrete buildings half a mile away. For another half mile, steel-frame buildings of the factory type would be wrecked. Even at a radius 1½ miles from zero, the brick walls of houses would be blown down. Many people spared by the blast and the flying rubble within the three-mile diameter of the seared circle would be killed or injured by the flash of heat and radiation...