Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exploitation of student interests, non-representative officers and inefficient management are sending the old political faction form of government to the wall. College students are setting up the framework of government systems which are adequate and capable of satisfying the many needs of the present day student. In the larger colleges and universities, the student senate and council systems are being inaugurated to replace the old free-for-all but open-to-none class officer system...
...superficial. There are, Dr. Erskine points out, "a few ideas, a few problems which belong to all time." And it is with these problems that the universities should be most deeply concerned. Their task is to sift the vital knowledge of the ages from the dust of its dead framework...
...Admiral.* On the more spectacular charge of flimsy construction, Secretary E. C. Davidson of the International Association of Machinists testified that McDonald and Underwood, employes on the job. had brought him confidential information of faulty duralumin and Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary Davidson notified the Navy in confidence, he said, but shortly thereafter Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. discharged both McDonald and Underwood, one of whom had to take refuge in his father's home in Tennessee "to protect himself...
...Such an apparatus, which can be carried around in convenient sets, will often be the deciding factor in the choice of one kind of structure instead of another, as the strength of the arch or framework in proportion to its weight can be found out by constructing such models," he continued...
...fashion. One prisoner secretes a pair of wire clippers under her pillow. The heroine (Sylvia Sidney) helps her snip at a fence which separates the prison yard from a bay. The jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with a gangster who pays attention to Miss Sidney, gets rid of his old girl by sending her to jail, vengefully shoots a detective because Miss Sidney marries someone else...