Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frederick Doell of the German Consulate climbed the subway steps into the chill, clear Brooklyn afternoon, trudged eight blocks to a quiet, dead-end street, turned off at the second house in a row of five brick-and-frame cottages...
Last week, in the grandiose splendors of the Library of Congress, two attendants on the second-floor gallery carefully wrestled a 17-inch square bronze frame into a metal stand. One of wrathful King John's four copies, brown and dim with age, its Latin screed legible only to the learned, now rested safe in Washington, capital of a nation two centuries undiscovered when the barons camped at Runnymede...
Miss Campbell stopped for breakfast at Reich's Cafe on Dubuque Street, where she works for her board three hours an evening as cashier. Then she drove six miles across the prairie to her school in Scott Township. It is a square, white frame building between a pasture and ; field of yellow corn stubble. Miss Campbell unlocked the door, lit a fire in the big Waterbury stove in the corner. Soon, trudging up the road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards...
Heil Co. (President, Wisconsin's Governor Julius ["The Just"] Heil): tank trailers built rigidly enough so that no supporting frame is necessary to hold up their bellies; hydraulic dump trailer for ten-wheel gravel hauling units...
Critics previewed the picture in London an hour after an air-raid warning had put them in the right frame of mind. What they saw was a frank propaganda picture starring Ralph Richardson* as a Flight Commander, Merle Oberon as his Red Cross wife. But the actors had little to do, less to say. Interest was focused on the actual techniques of air fighting. High light was a re-enactment of the Kiel raid, showing the actual participants leaving and (some of them) returning. The film's thesis: Britain has developed air defenses that can scatter the modern Invincible...