Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This fable popped up in the Scripps-Howard Columbus (Ohio) Citizen one day last week while the American Bar Association's House of Delegates met in Columbus' Deshler-Wallick Hotel to frame A. B. A. policies. Before the "congress" adjourned, the A. B. A.'s ethics & grievance committee was directed to investigate the action of Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Flint in enjoining Fisher Body workers from striking, report to the annual A. B. A. convention in September whether ethical canons had been violated because Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of General Motors stock...
...more than half a century Reformer Howard has battled drink. At 13 he asked Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania, his native state, if something could not be done about it, was appointed a page in the Legislature for his pains. Clinton Howard became a picture-frame salesman, acquired a modest fortune, moved to Rochester, X. Y., whence for a generation he has periodically emerged to go on lecture tours...
...scoring for the matches is done on a basis of 20 rounds fired, with a possible score of 10 points on each round. The shooting is done from a distance of 60 feet with 22 calibre pistols in 45 calibre frame...
...rode along beside them with his camera mounted on his skis, thus avoiding that flaw of most skiing cinemas in which the skier flashes past and is gone. Not only did Cameraman Schneeberger get some of the world's best pictures of skiing, but he managed to frame them in the rugged beauty of the high Alps. Many an Alpine skier will recognize the peaks and slopes of Castor and Pollux. Good shots: Guzzi somersaulting over a fence; Guzzi and Walter treading a ski dance; the angry village policeman biting the crust while his skis and boots...
Looking like a giant's roller skate (see cut), the Marsh Buggy has an ordinary Ford V-8 motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse...