Word: framework
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lent by Mr. A. Kingsley Porter, lecturer on the history of architecture at Yale are also on exhibition in the Fogg Museum. One is a picture of St. Michael by Byzantine-Gothte Guariento, 1338-68, of Padua, and the other of the Madonna and child in a dark architectural framework by Gregorio Schiavone, 1440-1470, a pupil of the Paduan Squarcione. The latter picture has been shown recently in the exhibition of Italian Primitives at the Kleinberger Galleries, New York...
...Perhaps a few words about myself will get me 'oriented,' and give me a bit of framework to build upon. I got my commission in the United States Marines without any trouble, thanks to yours and other letters, and a long lanky frame. Darrah Kelly was under-weight, and no amount of argument and pleading could make up for the deficiency. I felt extremely sorry, but was powerless to do anything. After a few months at Quantico, Va., we got off in the early part of September. As I stood a regular turn in the submarine watch...
Then in various parts of the field, signal towers built of light branches, which served as the framework for the human pyramids, sprang up. The fire lighting without matches then followed and in just 17 seconds there came to the representative of a Newton troop a reward in the form of a thin curl of smoke and the dry tinder burst into flame...
...First Hundred Thousand." It is however, a thoroughly good piece of work for a novice at journalism. Primarily a personal narrative it succeeds in giving a picture of the methods of fighting "Johnny Turk," and a general idea of that most splendid of failures, the Gallipoli campaign. The framework of the story is the brilliant career of the First Newfoundland Regiment, from which the author was parted only by a wound, leading to his honorable dismissal from the service. Anecdotes of other regiments and of brave comrades, tales of heroic deeds, and convincing description round out the tale...
Having determined the framework needed for proper organization of an army, the first step should be to obtain the officers necessary to carry out the training. It is not the intention of the War Department to make use of educational institutions in developing military geniuses, but rather to obtain men who, as officers, will be of an average efficiency, and thus preserve the general level of instruction and efficiency throughout the service, both active and reserve...