Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good deal of the light and power of British Roman Catholicism emanates from an undistinguished-looking church and a drab, red brick building close by London's Berkeley Square. The church is officially called the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the building is headquarters of the English Jesuits, but both together are much better known as Farm Street. Farm Street's back door is the gateway through which pass the more notable British converts to Catholicism...
...history began one day in 1950, when Spottswood and eleven other Negro children, with a police escort and a battery of lawyers, went to Washington's shining new John Philip Sousa Junior High School. The spacious brick-and-glass school, facing a carefully groomed golf course in southeast Washington, is in a solid residential district. It has 42 bright classrooms, a fine 600-seat auditorium, a completely equipped double gymnasium, a playground with room enough for seven basketball courts and a softball diamond...
...become sloppy as the writer becomes senile. It is less awkward for left-handed children. Most job application forms, in fact, say "please print clearly." Claverly maintained that unless some schools had been willing to violate tradition, the tyrannical master would still be holding forth in his red brick schoolhouse...
...last ten years Radcliffe has grown from a small local college into a national institution. But although the Georgian brick buildings and the knee-socked girls are now completely integrated into the bustling Harvard community, many vestiges and problems of the small college remain...
...house, like the experimental models shipped to Greece, could be erected in 160 man hours by inexperienced labor, using tin roofs and asbestos-board walls on a Dexion frame. Comino believes that he could sell it profitably in England for only $850. Using such native materials as wood, adobe brick or stone in backward areas, Comino believes that it would be even cheaper...