Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should Mr. Shields be so unfortunate as to fracture his hip, lie in a hospital eight weeks, flat on his back in a Bradford frame, leg being stretched by ropes and pulleys and weights, said leg being held immobile by a yard-long sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will...
...have won three championships. In his 13 years as a Bruin Eddie Shore has four times been judged the most valuable player to his team in the league. This year he was more valuable than ever, indicating that he has a few more seasons left in his well-shellacked frame...
...weight; nothing eats up gas like a heavy car. The Studebaker Champion has been trained down by smart engineering until it weighs 500 Ib. less than its rivals. Studebaker swears this has brought no structural weakness, no less safety. Most of the weight was saved in the engine and frame assembly, little taken from the body, in order to avoid the charge of being "tinny." Design is conservative-little chromium, headlights in fenders, no running boards. It has gearshift on the steering post, many standard Studebaker features such as hill-holder, rotary door locks, expensive shock absorbers. And it gets...
...When I was at Harvard it had been the fashion to live in ugly frame houses which lined the streets off Massachusetts Avenue . . . . now that the entire academic scene had changed I did not feel at home," relates Marquand's fictional Harvard alumnus in "Wickford Point...
Although the parties of the left have always been known for the bitterness of their quarrels, it has been left to Stalinism to introduce the methods of slander, kidnapping, murder, and frame-up trials. You all know of the Moscow confession trials. . . . Perhaps you know of the slander campaign against John Dewey and other liberal and radical figures for their participation on the Committee for the Rights of Asylum for Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists...