Word: kirke
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...Will the NBA attempt to push back the minimum age to 20 [from 19] when the collective-bargaining agreement expires in 2011? -Kirk Henderson, WashingtonYes, we will. We think [raising the entry age to 19] has been very constructive...
...have seen plates without trays and the food is still coming.” Most Quincy residents, however, seem receptive to giving “Trayless Thursdays” a try. “Getting multiple dishes might be annoying,” Mollie M. Kirk ’08 said. “But I think the program would be a really positive change if it could help stop food waste.” —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
...basic eight-stud red Lego brick was first sold in Denmark in 1949. But it took a further nine years for Ole Kirk's son, Godtfred Kirk, to file the patent for the versatile "Automatic Binding Brick" with its interlocking 2x4 studs. The plastic bricks are part of a unique system: tiny tubes inside give the knobs on top of other blocks more places to grip. They hold together well but can be taken apart easily by a child. And consistency has been key: the bricks produced today have the same bumps and holes, and can still interlock with those...
...January 28, 1958, that then-Lego head Godtfred Kirk Christiansen filed a patent for the iconic plastic brick with its stud-and-hole design. Since then, the company has made a staggering 400 billion Lego elements, or 62 bricks for every person on the planet. And if stacked on top of one another, the pieces would form 10 towers reaching all the way from the Earth to the Moon...
...Lego company was founded in 1932 by Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund who had a sideline in wooden toys. He named the company after an amalgamation of the Danish phrase "leg godt," which means "play well...