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Word: frame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know, it's a funny thing," he went on, still in an equine frame of mind, "most people don't realize that bareback riding is by far the most dangerous part of the circus, much more than trapeze swinging. You can get a terrific fall by landing upside down or a horse when there's no horse there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Horses! Horses! Horses!" Have Kept "Poodles" Bareback King for 15 Years--Ringling Brothers Rang Him In | 10/14/1927 | See Source »

Shapiro is entering his third year as a squad member, and has in addition to experience a weight of 215 pounds to recommend him. On his ability to fit his ponderous frame into the speedy modern game of football, depends to a large extent his status this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/27/1927 | See Source »

...immediate task of the assembly will be to frame a new constitution which, it may be confidently anticipated, will "legalize" the dominion of the Dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: New Assembly | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...football, "a team is as strong as its tackles." If this be true a first glance at the tackles eligible this fall seems to indicate that the strength of Harvard's 1927 football team defends largely on the advantage to which F. A. Clark '29 turns his lanky, powerful frame. Whether or not it is granted that one man can thus make or break a team, it appears that the key to the tackle situation, at least, rests with Clark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Brighter than a boast of being a "first air tourist" is the ticket Thos. Cook & Son have ordered for their first flight. It "will be printed on parchment paper and will be about the size and general appearance of college diplomas. The members of this pioneer tour can then frame their tickets and keep them as souvenirs. A special sticker for the handbags of the flying tourists is also being prepared in orange and black. . . ." Decorum. Precise advice: "Don't worry. Relax, settle back and enjoy life. If there's any worrying to be done let the pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Air Tour | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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