Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of becoming officers is concerned, it is quite apparent from the set-up that the draftee has virtually no chance, and superficial college courses in military subjects won't particularly help. With 125,000 reserve officers organized in units ready for call, and the positions in the framework now projected filled with regular Army officers or National Guardsmen, the action of General Marshall is little more than the offering of an improvement prize...
...neither peace nor war, and the light is fading fast. Though the words still pass current, yesterday's sharp distinctions between "peace and war," "neutrality and belligerency," "interventionist and isolationist" no longer hold any meaning. While the recognition of this fact eliminates the old clear-cut opposites as a framework for debate, it opens up a host of new and subtler choices, centering about the nature and extent of our participation...
...employed during the next year is still undecided, it seems likely that the radio frequency waves from the central set will be distributed over shielded cable to the various buildings of the college. From there it will be released to the students' radio sets by way of the steel framework of those buildings...
There would of course be one exception to this plan in that some buildings were built before the time of steel construction. In these, situated mainly in the Yard, the programs of the network will be released over water pipes or some other metal framework within the structures...
...present experiments that the network is making are confined entirely to Gore Hall in Winthrop House where the main transmitter has been set up. These tests should determine the actual arrangement of the wire hookups to the steel framework. The present plan is to make a complete circuit out of the building's frame and through use of shielded cable to eliminate the standing waves on the distribution lines and to minimize them on the building, thus cutting down on the air radiation which was the bugbear of last season's attempts...