Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of a Student Activities Center originated in June of 1945 when a Student Council investigation first proposed such a center as a World War II memorial Until 1945 such activities as the Liberal Union, the Network, and the Album were housed in Shepherd Hall, a wooden-frame building on Holyoke Street. Shepherd Hall was razed in the summer of 1945. The drive for an Activities Center gained impetus in 1947 when an Alumni Committee under Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 began deliberations toward selection of the University's war memorial...
...glanced out into the darkness, caught her breath in horror; thin patches of snow in the yard were lighted with the red glare of flames. She raced down the corridor to spread the alarm. As she did, the hospital's St. Elizabeth mental ward, a 60-year-old frame building, was spewing smoke and flame. Trapped in its rooms and wards were 65 women and three men, all of them insane or suffering the gentle irrationality of senility...
...silvery plane taxied to a stop on Rio's Santos Dumont Airfield, 5,000 waiting citizens rushed toward it. A roar went up as the door opened to frame the bulky figure of São Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros. Attendants struggled to push the loading ramp through the crowd. When they got it within two feet of the plane, Adhemar jumped. The crowd applauded wildly. Then Adhemar fought his way, grinning, down the steps to set foot in Rio for the first time in two years. He had come to open his formal campaign...
Price had come nowhere near putting a frame around the forces of nature, as Constable and Turner sometimes seemed to do. Yet dark and dreary though they were, his paintings hinted at big, surging things: earth, air, wind and rock...