Word: redbrick
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...Philanthropist Julius Rosen wald raised $3,000,000 for a large, redbrick plant, linked the hospital to the University of Chicago. Today Provident is the biggest and best voluntary (privately run) Negro hospital in the U.S. It has 165 beds, handles 1,000 emergencies a month (mostly charity), has 88 doctors on its staff (eight of them whites). Among the staff consultants are such famed white doctors as Gynecologists Fred Lyman Adair and Joseph Bolivar DeLee...
...telephone jangled sharply one morning last week in the redbrick, large-timbered, weather-beaten Plow Inn at Speen, Bucks., a little village nestling among the Chiltern Hills. "It's from London," someone cautioned, and the early customers waited expectantly. "Well, we've done it," giggled a feminine voice from the London end. "They've done it!" shouted the bartender. No explanation was needed for the pub's regular customers. "They" meant the owner of the Plow, plain-featured, 35-year-old Ishbel Allen MacDonald, daughter of the late longtime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald...
...enough to make most people who cared for the great open spaces, mountains, prairies, or the sea, go a bit whacky. Once, when a little tiny boy, he had been taken by his parents to visit the county jail of his home town in Connecticut. It was a dark redbrick building, ivy-clad, and punctuated with tiny windows covered with lattice grille-work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded him of that old eighteenth century county jail. The steel book-racks, the dull concrete floors...
...Augusta, on the estate of William Howard Ganett, retired publisher of Comfort.* Colby declined. Its loyalty to Waterville was rewarded: Citizens donated 600 acres on Mayflower Hill in the outskirts. There, when the $3,000,000 is raised, a new Colby will rise, on a cruciform campus with redbrick, white-columned Georgian buildings...
...Pope's red motor car carried him, seated in his gilded, damask-covered motor throne, from the Vatican Palace, over the graveled roads of the Vatican gardens to the small, redbrick, garden-surrounded broadcasting station...