Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connor plant, a low, white brick-fronted building, simply disintegrated. Its roof rose into the air and flew apart, its framework splintered, its walls bulged and burst in one enormous moment of concussion and incandescence. The walls and roofs of nearby buildings were smashed; automobiles caved in on the streets...
Concerning Germany, the Deputy Foreign Ministers were to consider only the procedure of drafting the peace, not the peace terms themselves. Even within this limited framework, they failed...
Individual performances within the twisted framework of the plot were comparatively satisfactory. Gino Cervi as Mozart looked and acted the abstract conception of the composer, and Luigi Pavese as his father was adequately Deutsch. Italian actresses, unfortunately, do not seem to fill the bill of love interest: Conchita Montenegro as Aloysia would be enough to frighten Eric von Stroheim...
...immense contributions of learning and exposition and practical aid to the courts--is the true testimony to Roscoe Pound's greatness. Today we observe with testy eye the state of justice across the globe. In the English-speaking countries, Roscoe Pound's philosophy of law remains a framework for the whole of law--from the earliest statutes to the latest labor legislation...
...free-for-all give and take. He mentioned the need for his presence on the domestic scene, but if this be his only reason for not wishing to make the trip overseas, it is inadequate in view of the fact that domestic problems can only be resolved within the framework of international developments...