Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building, now only half completed, is five stories high and will be built of brick. It will house approximately 1,000,000 volumes...
...camera moves over the brick, mortar and stone of the hilly Welsh village, wanders-up & down the pleasant countryside, down into a grim mine, pauses a moment on the black slag (waste of the coal pits) which will some day engulf the valley and drive the people...
...trusting like everyone concerned, that mellow age and ivy will take the stern edge off the steel, bridge and vast expanses of specially-made brick interspersed with little round things, Joseph ventures to stick his inquisitive head into the entrance, on the side that bulges toward the Union...
This week Paramount stockholders were the happiest of a happy lot. At its present rate, Paramount should earn $10,000,000 this year-a record since 1930. Loew's earnings rate points to $8,500,000-$9,000,000. Moreover, the very brick-and-mortar which swamped Paramount in 1933 is now its most profitable possession...
...Vincere Aut Mori"--To Conquer or To Die--is the ringing motto emblazoned on the Cambridge Fire Department's silken standard, designed and sown by one of its own members. "Organization and efficiency" might be a suitable, if less heroic, description of the innards of the light brick building in the spacious square under the shadow of Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into...