Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bicycle's wing skeleton is made of chrome molybdenum, that strong, light, beautifully tempered metal whose high value was discovered during the War, which has become important in airplane construction. This framework is covered with noninflammable celluloid upon the surface of which are distributed many "feathers" (strips of the molybdenum). The whole machine weighs 117 pounds, can be built...
...Grand Street Follies. Mayor Walker, however, without whom no amusement is complete, appears by proxy. There is no plot and the best that could be hunted up in the way of a hero was poor old Trader Horn whose senile and ridiculous maunderings in Manhattan form the framework for little pictures of less decrepit celebrities...
...Treaty contains but three which are explicit, lucid. The first sentence of Article I of the Briand Treaty runs to 112 words, is typical, may be instructively quoted: "The high contracting parties, without any intention to infringe upon the exercise of their rights of legitimate self-defense within the framework of existing treaties, particularly when the violation of certain of the provisions of such treaties constitutes a hostile act, solemnly declare that they condemn recourse to war and renounce it as an instrument of national policy; that is to say, as an instrument of individual, spontaneous and independent political action...
...altar for La Petite Fleur, St. Thérèse. The altar had been presented by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady; it was made of pure white Carrara marble. Above the altar was a marble statue of the little Saint. The altar is surrounded by a Florentine framework of marble chiseled as fine as lace. Five hundred people came to the consecration, which lasted for two hours and which was unusual in that the Cardinal blessed the entire altar instead of the altar stone alone...
...Story, even before it became gospel truth, had been told many times and in many ways. Its outlines, the framework that is a matter of fact, not opinion, belief or hypothesis, remains comparatively fixed. It begins on a morning in Bethlehem, Palestine, when a woman called Mary gave birth to a small child whose father was either, according to the faith or cynicism of the reader, her husband or the Almighty...