Word: brickely
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...Nobels. Poor boys with rich minds have long flocked to Lowell's "old brick pile" at Hayes and Masonic streets. The lure is Lowell's topflight faculty and such courses as calculus, advanced biology, five foreign languages, outstanding English composition. While 21% of San Francisco high school students as a whole go on to four-year colleges, the average for Lowell is 49%. Lowell graduates consistently win honors at Caltech, Stanford, M.I.T. and Harvard...
...polite Chinese expression with a somewhat Madison Avenue flavor. The brick is a coarse, inexpensive article that is thrown out by the speaker so that others will throw in something more valuable like jade, in the form of criticisms and suggestions. It is something like saying of an idea: "Let's put it on the train and see if it gets off at Hunan...
...week) at one of five London County Council centers, where husbands are allowed to visit only in the evenings until 9:30, and for a few hours at weekends. One of the biggest is South London's Newington Lodge, a grim, high-walled pile of sooty red brick. Known in welfare-state parlance as "suitable alternative accommodation"-though it lacks a sick bay, nursery, playroom and adequate toilets-Newington Lodge last week held 266 women and children from 72 fragmented families...
...President of the U.S. entered by a side door, the organ played My Country, 'Tis of Thee. The modernistic, brick and glass First Baptist Church of Bonham, Texas, was full. John Kennedy took his place in a second-row pew, beside former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, and next to Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
...builders have cut a 550-acre swath through Southwest Washington. Some 4,657 families, most of them Negro, have been relocated. Beside NASA's new edifice, three other Federal Office Buildings are rising on Independence Avenue, and two more will be built by 1966. A new brick marketplace has replaced the flyspecked old Twelfth Street Market, and the Maine Avenue wharves, with their cluttered array of seafood houses, will give way to a broad promenade with modern marinas, shops and restaurants...