Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago a man named Blackburn and his mother rented a big, white, frame house at Oklawaha, scraggly little citrus town in central Florida. One dawn last week 15 Department of Justice agents tapped quietly at the doors of houses near the newcomers', warned residents to get out of range. Then they surrounded the big, white house and cried, "Come out!" For answer they got a spit of machine-gun fire. There followed an ear-splitting six hours which Oklawahans will long remember. "It was like war," one of them gasped afterwards. Furious firing from both sides...
...Free was demonstrating a new amplifying device which he and N. Y. U.'s Carl Johnson had developed. The microphone frame was vertically dipped in a cup of weevily wheat which had previously been warmed to rouse the larvae to activity. The vacuum tubes were specially constructed to furnish a high constancy of current flow, eliminate all noise except the minute munchings of the weevils in their microcosms, and the whole was enclosed in a soundproof, rubber-mounted metal case. When a container of wheat free of weevils was substituted for the infested grain, the apparatus remained silent...
...Standard models have a new engine with 23 per cent more horse-power, and an improved chassis frame. The bodies have been made more spacious, and all closed models have flat floors in the rear compartment, eliminating the ridge which formerly existed. Redesigned dials, behind concave glass that eliminates reflection and promotes visibility, are mounted in an improved instrument board with walnut-grained panels. The new engine is of the same displacement as the 1934 Master models, but incorporates new improvements. The brakes have been made more powerful to match the gain in engine power...
Several things contributed to the victory of the revivified and rejuvenated Harvard five over the Jumbos last Friday night up at Medford, and the Feslermen start practice today in preparation for the second game with Pennsylvania in a new frame of mind...
...have not been satisfied to abbreviate and adapt definitions made originally for adults and for adults of much ability and knowledge. What has a clear and correct meaning to a well-informed adult may confuse and mislead a child. We, therefore, frame our definitions directly to meet the needs of children...