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...Teachers, convened yesterday afternoon. Today it will conclude its group conferences, but next week it will merge in part into the small daily gatherings which will precede the plenary sessions of the second conference--that of the University Teachers Association. It is in these small meetings that the basic framework for much new educational theory is evolved--theories which will be carried into actual practice in the ensuing year throughout New England. Harvard is indeed fortunate to have such annual gatherings as these promulgating new ideas under its wings, thus giving the University a chance to bless lesser schools with...
...chief. He was in time past a courageous revolutionary who had Lenin's confidence. He has shown his intelligence on a score of different occasions in world conferences. What tragic fate has overtaken him to see his best collaborators, his closest friends, disappear -to see the whole framework of his service broken and to be obliged now to approve what has been done, even to praising the executioners of his associates...
...much like any other movie camera, except that its action can be governed to expose one frame of film and then stop. Regular cinema cameras run at the rate of anywhere from eight to 64 frames per second. What makes the Disney camera unique is its towering, 14-ft. framework. The camera peers vertically down from the top of this iron structure through several levels, set below it like the grooved shelves in a baker's pie-wagon. On the lower levels, various elements of back ground drawn in relative perspective may be superimposed, one over the other, imparting...
...Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau conducted a nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau's New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used the Tong as the framework of a nationwide narcotics ring doing $1,000,000 worth of business a year...
...hands of the same judiciary; he attacks the Providential State and then builds a liberal state that provides innumerable services for its citizens; he rages at the New Deal's overhead direction and then reenacts its program in the name of social control. In trying to lay bare the framework of the Good Society Mr. Lippmann only reveals the confusions of his own mind