Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy. For three years (including ten months in the Pacific) Leader was a World War II supply officer. After the war he returned to York County and (with the help of a G.I. loan ) bought Willow Brook Farm, a 28-acre outfit with a tidy 80-year-old brick house and an operating hatchery just 15 miles from his birthplace. After a grinding first year, Willow Brook Farm paid off handsomely. Leader now sells more than 1,000,000 chicks and 60,000 broilers each year...
...narrow escape forced the Corporation to take stops to prevent future fires in Harvard's wooden buildings. A fire-proof floor was installed in Mem Hall and Boylston Hall got new brick walls. Fire escapes went in, ropes were provided for dormitory rooms, and ladders and waterproof covers for furniture were placed in the Yard...
Despite an organized movement on the part of some alumnae, the Center will be of Georgian design, in red brick. It was felt by some that modern architecture, similar to that of the Harvard Graduate Center, should be used. The College favored Georgian style, however, so the Quadrangle would fit in with other Radcliffe buildings...
...given General Motors its record share of the auto business* looks as if he just stepped out of a Cadillac ad. His 5 ft. 9 in., 155-Ib. frame is usually clad in flawless blues and greys; at 61, his once brick-red hair and pencil-line mustache are grey, but his bright blue eyes sparkle like a newly polished car, his smile is as broad as a Cadillac grille. His voice is quiet, his manner calm. But under the Curtice hood there throbs a machine with the tireless power of one of his own 260-h.p. engines...
While the undergraduates seem to take their religion seriously, they find a social balance in the fairly extensive Dartmouth fraternity system. The red brick and white frame fraternity houses which stand in a semi-circle around the dormitories and class buildings are the centers of both undergraduate life and discussion...