Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yearly lease cost of the brick building is estimated...
...Buildings or ten Pentagons, the system is overcrowded, understaffed and eternally in need of maintenance and new construction. The newest of New York schools are as handsomely conceived and well built as any in the U.S., but the worst are dark, prisonlike antiques which stand wall-to-wall with brick tenements and factory buildings, and offer little play space other than the littered and noisy streets. Over a hundred are more than 50 years old; many are older...
Less than ten years ago, the district, near the sluggish Harlem River, was a dreary wasteland of filthy, overcrowded brick-and-stone tenements. Today dozens of blocks of them have been torn out and in their places stand two big, modern apartment projects whose high sunbathed and lawn-bordered buildings have given their Negro tenants a bright new standard and concept of living. Seventy-five percent of P.S. 133's Negro pupils (95% of its enrollment) come from the two big projects-25% are from one jammed block of dreary "old-law tenements." It is difficult to distinguish between...
...engineering faculty, and the new men will bring new research projects with them when they come to the University.Lower right: Three graduate students in the electromagnetic radiation section take data from oscilloscopes and record it in project notebooks. They are, left to right, JOHN M. OSEPCHUK '48, DONALD B. BRICK '50, and CLINTON G. SHAFER...
...lights which once burned whale oil now use electricity but the modern bulbs, without globes, are fixed into the old lamps. There are not many lights, and at night the center green becomes a mass of black surrounded by a glinting curlicue iron fence and the red brick sidewalk that is found throughout the Hill...