Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physical set-up. One day this spring the trustees solemnly toured the gleaming halls, airy rooms, and spacious courtyard of Quincy House, then boarded a bus for the Radcliffe Quadrangle to survey the cozier quarters provided in Cabot Hall (built in 1937, fourth youngest of the College's nine brick dormitories), Presumably they were impressed by the difference; at any rate they approved the president's proposal to create the first house system in the history of women's education...
...Eleanor Moaney, his housekeeper, is aware of the ex-President's habits, and he does not have to wait long for his breakfast-orange juice, a small filet mignon, and toast. By 7:30, Ike is on his way to his office, four miles away in a red-brick building that was once the home of the president of Gettysburg College...
Only a few dim clues remain to suggest where the great emperor lived. But early this year Professor Gianfilippo Carettoni, a government archaeologist, started searching for Augustus' house on the Palatine. Diggers soon uncovered the tops of hefty brick foundation piers mingled with older stone walls outlining two rooms...
After the reign of Augustus (27 B.C. to A.D. 14), brick pillars were built on the mosaic floors to support a building on a higher level. Earth packed between the brickwork and the walls saved the decorations. But before the walls disappeared, an irreverent person named Quintus, perhaps a bricklayer, scratched his name on the dead emperor's frescoes...
...they tend more and more to pick their churches because they are within walking distance, or because their friends go there, or because they like the preacher-all too few care passionately about doctrinal differences between the limestone church with stained glass, the spired white clapboard and the Georgian brick. Typical is a Hollywood man whose parents were Lutherans and then Methodists; he became a Presbyterian "because the bass soloist's position was open...