Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engineers are keeping the University in mind in designing the structure, he added. The arches are wide enough for crew, and building material will be traditional red brick...
Persuasive Mail. Last summer. Chen Yi overran the railroad south of Tsinan. Isolated and besieged, Wang strengthened his defenses. He threw a four-ply line of pillboxes and barbed wire around the outskirts of the city, dug a ten-foot moat. After seeing that the ancient brick wall around the inner city was properly sandbagged, he flew down to Nanking. He asked for one more division-with which, he said, Tsinan could be held. While he pleaded, Chen Yi struck...
Home Life. In Topeka, Kans., hospital doctors treated the head wounds of Ford Sanders, who indignantly wondered what was the matter with his 13-year-old son: "I was just going to whip the wife a little and he hit me on the head with a brick." In Springfield, Mass., Robert H. Smith won a divorce when he testified that his wife slapped him because he could not dance the polka...
...Like a Brick. As soon as the news got back to Gold Bridge, a tiny town on the Bridge River, prospectors for miles around got the itch. Some were gnarled veterans of the Gold Rush. Some were tenderfeet. Only one had a Geiger counter, and none knew anything about radioactive ores. That did not stop them...
Stocky, blond Edwin Phillips, 44, who gave up prospecting and struck it richer in the vegetable-trucking business, caught the new fever. He drove his truck as far into the mountains as he could, then abandoned it and hiked into the uranium area. "It hit him like a brick," said his wife...