Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaking at a New York Herald Tribune forum on the problems that the air age gave to education. Winning the war means training youth to use air power. Creating a civilized postwar world means educating the whole U.S. to the possibilities of the new life whose framework is already here. These problems demand ''new world maps, a new geography, the rethinking of international relations . . . the support of an enthusiastic and discerning citizenry," and the abiding knowledge that "in the long run, air communication is bound to develop a sense of unity among people'' and further...
...meeting in Algiers Generals de Gaulle and Giraud have each agreed to appoint two members of a nine-man central French authority to be used as the framework for uniting divergent French forces inside & outside metropolitan France. These six will name three other members, and this group, over which De Gaulle and Giraud will preside alternately, will organize a consultative council and form a provisional government to be dissolved after France is liberated...
...intended for large-scale building projects where changes in the plan or the use of the structures may be likely or desirable. They call their development "Ratio Structures" and have completed a full scale sample in The Bronx. Built on small concrete piers, it is unique in having its framework, like a snail's, on the outside. The structure is composed of two practically independent parts: 1) an arch-shaped roof made of insulated panels and supported by posts; 2) rooms, formed of demountable inner & outer panels* which can be shuffled around at will under the roof. Thus...
...framework of fact is necessary to more advanced study, but a good memory for names, dates, and places should not be considered the criterion of historical acumen. The Times test is weak in its exclusive attention to memory, and the conclusion drawn in its editorial, "that our high schools need better teaching in the subject," though it is probably accurate, is not supported by the mass of irrelevancies cited in its report...
Within this framework, says Author Allen, will be action "deep in implication." Subthemes will concern the effects of revenge as a racial policy, "the sentimental tradition that we are a merciful and kindly people," the acts of savagery that may arise out of "infantile compulsions." But basic to all will be the idea that the first Americans were neither revolutionaries nor reorganizers. They were "disinherited," and "for the first time in memorized history man was free to act entirely on his own responsibility...