Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Harvard whose "School Abides, his testament", he is ready for the sterner stuff contained in Aswell's Bowdorn Prize essay, "This Modern Chaos Called Education." It is a cogent plea that Education, Philosophy, and Life be linked in an indissoluble bond. Teachers must make of their subjects a framework for their philosophy. A philosophy of life must be the aim of Education, and whether it result in a religious or a humanistic philosophy is of little concern to the essayist, though one may suspect from his strong classical bent that he would prefer the latter result...
...Framework. The framework for this mighty nosegay of faith which the celebrating Catholics will offer to Christ through His bride, their Church, is being created at Mundelein, 111., and at Chicago...
...Austin Strong in this play may be equally attributed to the poignant mixture of humor and a little patnos in his characters of the Parisian underworld, and to a highly trained and sympathetic group of players. The part, circumstances, and events form an adequate, if not a completely convincing framework, and for the first two acts at least the action is dynamic. The problem, if one exists at all, is a bewildering combination of theology, various kinds of complexes including the inferiority type, and the power of suggestion. If taken seriously it is ineffectual, but the fine touch of comedy...
Skull. The skull is the bony framework of the head. It is divided into the bones of the cranium and of the face. The face bones are not to be considered in the discussion of this operation. The bones of the cranium form the brain case. They are the occipital, the two parietals, the frontal, the two temporals, the sphenoid (wedge-formed) and the ethmoid (sieve-formed). At birth these bones are not completely joined, the jointure being fulfilled by membranes, which change into bone as the person grows older...
...term "hobby horse" is of great antiquity and uncertain origin. It has been used to denote: 1) The "Irish hobby," a breed of small horse trained to an easy gait. 2) The costume worn by a medieval actor to represent both man and horse, and consisting of a framework with a horse's head and tail casing the actor's hips. 3) An early form of bicycle or tricycle. 4) A prostitute. (Webster's New International Dictionary...