Word: bricks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dallas, where the development formula has long been: "Build a brick box with a hip roof and you can't miss," Designer Parker Folse offers a $16,850 two-bedroom house with a 200-sq.-ft. balcony jutting over the living room, a butterfly roof, a massively handsome fieldstone chimney that anchors one side of the house, which contains 1,275 sq. ft. of living area...
...hell is that thing in the hall?" some asked. "Why the sink?" others asked. One girl referred perplexedly to the "mysterious interconnecting hall-with-hole." Two girls complained that it would cut down the social life in the bathrooms. At present, 25 girls share a large bathroom in the brick dorms. Only one person thought the sink "terrific...
Nearly every girl asked for more bookcases. The one bookcase in the model (with a pathetic handful of books) was "too small for anyone but a freshman," someone said. "If the College realized the number of brick, cinder block and board bookcases now in existence in the quad they would take pity on the construction companies," said someone else. "A wall full," was one suggestion. One senior with tiny handwriting very neatly sketched her plan for combination bookcase and cabinet, and combination closet, cabinet and drawers...
...meal problem allegedly came to the attention of the Administration when a student in one of the brick dormitories complained that some girls from off-campus houses were eating two meals a day in the dormitories...
...passing car, knocked the driver unconscious. A metal railing, torn from its concrete bed, lanced across the street into the window of the Social Dry Cleaning store. Next door, customers at the Silver Springs Restaurant were knocked to the floor. In nearby Kelly Ingram Park, pieces of brick nipped the leaves off trees 200 ft. from the blast...