Word: mortar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan District of Boston already has a population of about a million and a half. In half a century more it will have two or three million. Like the whole surrounding region, Cambridge will be more and more densely populated. It will be a place of brick and mortar, of noise and scurry and distraction, no longer a suburb of pleasant houses, shady streets, simple and quiet ways...
Tradition will undoubtedly look askance when the first of these halls becomes a reality of brick and mortar, but then tradition has looked askance at bigger transformations in the past, where results have been as wholesome as it is expected this panacea will be. Certainly Yale will never again be subjected to the division which took place with the formation of the Scientific School as a separate school, and certainly Yale has not been extremely conscious that their separation has been an aggravating divisive factor. Initial pride in both the College and Sheff, still centers around the word "Yale...
Brown Derby Bricks. A house built of bricks without mortar would fall down unless all the bricks had grooves grooving into each other. Of a patented grooved brick and a $100,000,000 concern to market it there was much talk in London last week, the talk emanating from William F. Kenny, who made a fortune out of contracting, is director of Chrysler Corp., became famed last year as Brown Derby's Best Friend. Grooved bricks, said Tycoon Kenny, will reduce building costs by 20% besides successfully resisting Wind & Storm...
...activity of engineers in their drilling for hard pan back of Gore Hall indicates the approach of the House Plan in the shape of brick and mortar. Harvard men, however they may feel about the desirability of the Plan, can not help realizing that the University's social experiment is no longer a paper theory. Unit number one will shortly arise a reality...
...organization is the sponsoring of such work as would fail to find ready acceptance in such quarters as the Fogg Museum, it is well that the point of departure be not too far removed from familiar ground. New standards of taste must at least find the bricks and mortar of their construction in the standards of the past, for even the most open minded critics find difficulty in properly appraising a work which has only a nominal relationship to the familiar...