Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's ivy-lined brick edifices and quaint landmarks often present a facade of tranquility. The tourists who flock to the Yard in droves probably assume that this campus is quiet and safe. However, most Harvard students are aware that their campus is not immune to violent crime. Over the past few months, a series of break-ins in Matthews Hall and an assault and attempted rape near Adams House have dramatized just how dangerous Harvard can be. Criminals are roaming the streets of Cambridge, and they see Harvard students as easy prey. There are many precautions that students...
...Harvard also benefited from Brown's woeful shooting. The Bears shot 23 percent from the field in the first stanza and missed many easy put-backs of offensive rebounds. Of course Harvard, which boasts the league's top-ranked field-goal percentage defense, also deserves credit for Brown's brick-laying...
...discussed his role as an activist, saying that he saw himself as "a piece of the brick on the Chinese Great Wall...
...tale of the upscale Incandenza clan, a family of high achievers. Mother Avril is a professor of language structure, and father James made a fortune inventing optical instruments, retiring to produce avant-garde films with cheeky titles such as The American Century as Seen Through a Brick, Dial C. for Concupiscence and Infinite Jest, a feature described as "lethally entertaining...
...building used to be a final club, and it felt like it," says Tucker. "You had to go into a dark brick building, whereas I think the new building is much more welcoming; it has an open environment...