Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington Senators in 1917, which was only recently declared "perfect" by baseball's official historians. The first Senator to bat actually reached first base, but he was walked by Pitcher Babe Ruth, who was prompt ly thrown out of the game for clouting Plate Umpire Brick Owens to express his displeasure. The runner was caught stealing, and Relief Pitcher Ernie Shore, called in cold from the bullpen, disposed of the next 26 Senators with out walking one or allowing...
...controversy arose over the fact that off-campus girls assigned to eat one or two meals a day in the smaller brick dormitories are also required to assume a considerable share in waiting on table in the dorm where they...
...resolution states "that girls in off-campus houses wait-on in the brick dorms where they eat unless inconvenient to that brick dorm. The work chairman in the off-campus house is to apportion her work program so that the total number of work hours of each girl in the off-campus house is equal...
...Radcliffe work program is designed to keep down room and board costs by requiring each girl to spend approximately two to four hours a week working in her dorm or house--either answering phones or waiting on table. Most of the brick dorms require the off-campus girls who eat there to share in the extra burden of work that they create...
...these three houses, approximately 200 girls can eat breakfast in their pajamas, entertain in small, comparatively private living rooms, and live much more intimately with other girls than in the eight brick dormitories. The rooms are huge in comparison with those on the Quad and boast fireplaces and out door balconies. And concurrent with their responsibilities, their freedoms are much greater, although they must observe the honor system and regular parietal hours...