Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leather crash helmet, was pressed against an oblong sponge-rubber rim which framed the eyepiece of an 18-in. telescopic gun sight. Whenever his target centered in the cross hairs of the sight, he touched an electric firing key, watched a 15-lb. high-explosive projectile rip through a framework target tank...
...President explained that he wanted a framework drafted. He intended to set up the new division by executive order, would finance it with his blanket defense funds, hoped it would not cost much. The President then sent to the Senate a nomination of Coy as director of "a board of investigation and research" authorized by the 1940 Transportation Act. But Washington wiseacres expect the rising young New Dealer to spend his time on much more pressing things than researching "the relative economy and fitness of carriers by railroad, motor carriers, and water carriers for transportation service...
...comedy hauled out of this unremarkable framework is one part radio, one part vaudeville, one part lunacy. The trail of the safari through the jungle is illustrated with an animated map. The voice of a commentator speaks: "Week after week they plod onward with nothing to guide them but the stars by night and the sun by day. . . . And so our safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen...
Herewith negative and copy of a photograph of a painting by a Bolivian artist recently on exhibition here in the Municipal Entrance Hall. The title on the framework underneath means "Flag Worship...
...about ready to settle down when he was offered a job by his brother's union. To fight open-shop contractors, the union was dynamiting structures built by non-union labor - not demolishing them, but twisting the whole framework by placing the explosives at the point of greatest stress, forcing the contractor to pull it down...