Word: frame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal Allies to its letter urging speedy adoption of the reports. France declared that she should not accept the reports until they had been put into effect. Britain and Italy accepted unconditionally and professed their readiness to take any necessary measures. Belgium contended that the Reparations Commission should frame an official plan, based upon the reports, before the Allied Governments should be required to act. ¶ The Reparations Committee held a series of conferences, chief of which was one with J. P. Morgan, U. S. banker. On the proposal of Colonel James A. Logan, U. S. unofficial observer...
Booth fanned two of the Cushing batsmen in the first frame, but game one of his few hits when McGrath singled into right field. The Freshmen were equally impotent in their half of the inning, but in the second, they began in earnest. Ellison walked, advanced to third when Morris; the schoolboy second-baseman, bungled Bailey's fast grounder, and scored on Hamlen's long sacrifice fly to center field. A moment later, Urruela, the Cushing catcher, let one of Bird's deliveries slip by him and Bailey crossed the plate with the second...
...explain the frame of mind in which these bitter letters were written, Dr. Parks went back to an old story, to an incident in the death of Jan Huss of Prague, who lead the Bohemian reformation a hundred years before Luther. When Huss was bound to the stake after his condemnation by a Catholic Council, a peasant woman brought a little bundle of fagots and cast them on the pile that the fire might burn more fiercely. Huss understood that she did this, not because she was a wicked woman, but because she was frightened. She really believed Huss...
...clock, facing a talked-out and hungry Senate, he rose and announced his intention of delivering a two-hour speech. He offered his hearers the choice of submitting to it then, or of waiting until after dinner. The Senate chose to dine, and returned in a mellower frame of mind...
...ball around with a small board. The Indians made their balls of hair and feathers, with a stone or wood knot to give weight, and the whole covered with a leather casing. They first padded the boards, and then substituted the net of leather thongs supported on a wooden frame, very similar to the present stick...