Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nubia that Fathy rediscovered the technique. Native brick masons could create a clean vault of bricks by first building the back wall of the house higher than the intended roof level. Then they built the arched roof, inclining it slightly against the wall, which provided support until the arch was completed. The roofs would not fall in earthquakes, and the technique was so simple that it could be used anywhere in the world...
...public students showed up for Thursday's school opening. But in South Boston, 90% of the white children stayed away from school. So did similarly large numbers of the black children, most from Roxbury, who had been reassigned to Southie's schools. Outside the brown-brick fortress of South Boston High School, which had a projected enrollment of 1,539 (797 black), a jeering, mostly teen-aged crowd of whites threw stones and bottles at two yellow buses that carried the 56 black students who showed up for opening day. As school was dismissed that afternoon, the whites...
...public works and building projects. He pushed great roads in all directions from the hub of New York City. He created green and public parks in every corner of New York State. He spanned rivers with long, graceful suspension bridges, erected massive dams, carved playgrounds out of brick and granite so that city children would have a place...
...results of Moses' effort were highly visible. Majestic parks sprouted upstate near Buffalo, Albany and Rochester. Even better were those on Long Island, including the grand expanse of bathhouses (faced with costly Barbizon brick at Moses' insistence), parking lots and restaurants at Jones Beach...
...Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, perhaps the busiest and most aggressive of the more than 20 tenant groups in the state, works out of a two-room office in the dated brick building at 595 Mass Ave in Central Square. There, a volunteer staff follows the moves of every landlord, land owner and government official that might have adverse effects on the lives of local tenants...