Word: framework
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grow worse, murder, robbery and brawls increased. The Californian camp of '48 was one of men who had no intention of making California their home and only full of a desire to make money. Although heroism and generosity sometimes prevailed, yet there was no stable system. Upon this fragile framework fell the crowd of "forty miners," and the result, as may be imagined, was most disastrous...
There stands beneath my window an antiquated piece of furniture with which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could...
...second lecture of Prof. Sargent will be given in Sever 11 at 2 P. M. today. Subject, "The Bony Framework - a Basis for Muscular Development...
...unsupplied. It has been said that the beams, from which it was supposed the apparatus was to be hung, are too high. The effect of the interior would have been marred by placing the beams any lower, while by the present method a great advantage is gained. An iron framework is fastened to the timbers, on which are running beams and eyes that can be placed at any desired point...