Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then she clammed up. When Cottrell and the sergeant doubted her story, she got mildly sassy. The sergeant booked her for disorderly conduct (time, 11:15 a.m.; date, Oct. 5) and sent her along to the white brick Bergen County jail. Jersey justice forbids sass from drifters...
...bring about the reunion, the Quakers had set up a joint body-the Philadelphia General Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends-and invited Quakers from far & near to attend. The Hicksites' red brick, wide-eaved meetinghouse was filled, to near capacity (1,400) with sober Friends. On its cushioned brown benches they "centered down" before each session in the vibrant silence characteristic of Quaker worship...
...been no easy job, as Stevens can well testify, Regardless of the opinions of latter day aspiring architects and Fine Arts students, Memorial Hall was built to last. Basement partitions measure four to five feet thick and are built of slabs of rock as well as brick. Pneumatic drills have been needed more than once to put in doors, ventilators, and staircases, as called for in the blueprints. The only visible change on the exterior of this monument will be the main entrance to the Laboratory, which will be on the left side of the main south entrance...
...another thing, there was something satisfying in a leisurely look at Boston. Despite the Irish, the Italians, the automobile and the social "philosophy" of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Boston was still Boston. Its church steeples still stood unchallenged by tall buildings. Beacon Hill's decorous cascade of red brick houses still defied time and modern architects. The lion and unicorn of England, which revolutionary mobs had neglected to pull down in the 1770s, still stood atop the old State House...
...Houses. Lumber production for September was three billion board feet, 14% less than in August. A decline in production of other much-needed housing materials-brick & tile, plumbing fixtures, gypsum board-was partially offset by an increase in production of hardwood flooring, cement, clay sewer pipe, cast-iron soil pipe, and asphalt roofing...