Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since early childhood, Erick Carstensen, 14, has suffered because of his stature: he is a victim of hereditary dwarfism. Brick's contemporaries, who generally towered over him, excluded him from their games. Teachers were often equally unsympathetic, calling him "Shorty" and browbeating him for his inability to keep up with his classmates in physical education. Even the doctors consulted by his parents provided little in the way of relief. According to Erick's mother, Mrs. Dorothy Carstensen of Los Angeles: "They'd all say the same thing: 'Don't worry about...
DURING World War II, the Nazis herded more than 400,000 Polish Jews into a 3.5-sq.-mi. area of Warsaw, sealing them off from the rest of the city with a great brick wall. There, in 1943, thousands of Jews perished in a desperate 28-day uprising against the massed might of the German army. Those who survived the fight were shipped off to concentration camps...
Wilson's office, located in a brick house behind the BIA building in Pine Ridge, resembles a typical corporation. Secretaries and clerks sit behind desks shuffling papers, and a Xerox machine hums continually in a back room...
...today is crime-not student demonstrations or vandalism, but assaults, armed robberies and rapes. Such incidents have increased on campuses across the country by 50% in two years, according to John W. Powell, executive secretary of the International Association of College and University Security Directors. Even the 10 ft. brick walls of Harvard Yard have been insufficient to prevent a wave of thefts and assaults. Last fall, for example, a gang of seven Cambridge youths kicked and beat Freshman Philippe Bennett in the yard, then assaulted two more students-all within 100 yds. of the university police station. During...
...anyone even remotely connected with Harvard, and disrupting its austere appearance would be akin to heresy. When Lamont Library was built in 1947, the public was assured that it would solve Harvard's library space problems and would not disrupt the Yard. "With a steel frame and a brick exterior, the new library will outwardly preserve the conservative architecture of the Yard, while the interior will be of modernistic design," the Crimson wrote on June...