Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rally in Trenton was at the Civic Center, a dirty red brick building from around 1890 that now stands in front of a great expanse of bull-dozed wasteland covered with crab-grass and bits of broken pavement. The auditorium had about 3000 people in it when Wallace arrived, and the seats were arranged in a square with no one in the middle and no one behind the speaker's platform. This arrangement is designed to cut down on the risk of assassination, and also to reduce the contact between Wallace's supporters and the hecklers, who had turned...
Exposure to natural radiation, Moeller said, is nowhere near a dangerous level but has been increasing. Just using brick or concrete instead of wood as a building material exposes people to more radiation, he said. Similarly, some foods emit more radiation than others...
...surge. Rental construction has increased by 36% in Phoenix, 67% in Denver and 145% in Miami. In such metropolitan areas as Boston, Atlanta, Houston and front-running Dallas, more apartments are now going up than one-family houses. That condition has long prevailed in New York City, whose prosaic brick or concrete residential towers command attention mostly by sheer size. The current behemoth is Co-Op City, a 15,400-apartment complex now rising on the site of a former swamp in The Bronx. Both in and out of New York, the quality of construction often leaves something...
...HOUGHTON Library is the ugly building in Harvard Yard between Widener and Lamont. Its brick walls are drab and square, the stone steps leading to its entrance are ponderous, and its doors are always closed...
...girls are moving to other brick dorms rather than into off-campus houses," Carolyn Buhl, head resident of Holmes, said yesterday. Two girls have moved to Barnard, two to Eliot, two to Jordan W, five to Bertram, one to Briggs, and one to Wellmet, a half-way house for mental patients. These dorms are all much smaller than Holmes...