Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democracy to Mr. Hays is a living organism which adapts itself to environment. It has capacity for change, for absorbing new ideas and making use of them to fit into the framework of existing institutions. It is far more workable than any totalitarian government because it follows no rules except to respond to what the people want. The most exciting chapters of his book though the most sketchy, outline our progress in such fields as labor, agriculture, industry, science and invention. Mr. Hays proves conclusively that in America, at least, democracy has worked...
...selected solid spruce planking one and one-half inches thick instead of the one-inch boards ordinarily used in track building. On a framework of two-by-fours he conventionally laid the planks lengthwise along the straightaways, but set them unconventionally across the course at the turns. He banked the turns at a 30° angle instead of the ordinary...
...month, to see him chopping down the trees and shrubs around his two-room cottage, surprised next to see him move all his belongings out of the house and padlock the doors, surprised next to see smoke curling out of the building. Firemen came in time to save the framework but Edward Murphy's cottage was as good as destroyed. When police arrested him for violating the arson law, he was indignant. The nearest house was 100 feet from his. Having no insurance, he was perpetrating no fraud. "A man has as much right to burn his home down...
This would give Ulstermen approximately the status in Eire now enjoyed in Czechoslovakia by the Slovaks, who recently were granted their own premier and legislature within the framework of the Republic. Obviously Prime Minister de Valera was thinking in Czechoslovak terms last week. He has seen straight negotiation swiftly effect in Czechoslovakia certain changes which once were to have been decided by plebiscites...
...seen from the exhibits that the new architecture is not merely a new garb for an old framework," Bogner said. "The public is hard to convince that modern architecture is not a stylistic venture, like a new model of an automobile or a fashion show, but is the outgrowth of new demands set on buildings as a result of social changes and the technological developments...