Word: framed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dormitory to replace the frame houses now standing at the corner of Mount Auburn and De Wolfe Streets, will soon be constructed by the Sterling Realty Trust, it was announced yesterday by one of its trustees. The new dormitory will not be owned by the University, but will be constructed and managed by a private concern. Plans for the building are still tentative, but it is expected that actual work will start some time in the near future...
Doris was not a bad woman at all, but her love affair with Apollos, a Jew, had a pronounced geographical tendency that kept getting her into scrapes. She even had a child by Vespasian when the future emperor was only a centurion. Her wanderings make the frame of this novel wide. Her adventures, which are as unintermittent as they are various, provide bright colors for the picture...
Harvard now has a basketball team, but it will not join the eastern intercollegiate league, although it does play most of the members of the league. Harvard will not join the league, for then it must play a league schedule and abide by league rules; now it can frame its own schedule as it pleases with which schools it wants to play and when it wants to play...
...Known to prurient occidentals as "Mr. A," the victim of a "frame up" or "badger game" wored on him by English blackmailers in Paris (TIME...
...murder trial ended last week. The jury consisted of a onetime sheriff, merchants, clerks, farmers, laborers. None was known to be a Klansman or a Catholic. All were wary gentlemen, who heard Prosecutor William McLean sneer at Evangelist Norris as a "pistol-packing parson"; cry: "There has been a frame-up in this case. Norris had murder in his heart and wanted an excuse to kill Chipps, and said something to make him turn, and then pumped him full of bullets . . . the poor old drunkard...