Word: skeletonization
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...announcement that Dane Hall is to be torn down can only create mixed emotions within us. We are glad that a skeleton will be put to rest, but we hate to see the passing of an old-timer, especially one who used to welcome signed checks with such avidity...
Visibility Problems. The two skeleton maps are to be handed in at this meeting...
...might reach a basis which would offer the poor comfort of a gradual rapprochement. But the Teutonic allies are not such nations--not any of them. They are, together, notorious for the lack of the things mentioned above. So, behind each offer camouflaged as Peace, hides the grinning skeleton of other wars; of national and personal deceit; of the advance repudiation of the very obligations they propose to take; of the absolute indifference to Right; of the utter lack of aggregate and individual honor. All these are gladly lost, sunk, destroyed, in the mad stress to achieve unholy means...
...existing apathy. Much is needed before track at Harvard can be put on a firm, successful basis. Undoubtedly the two committees now at work will establish a real system for directing in a business like way the activities of the track team. The best of systems is merely a skeleton and must be supplemented with good administrators and eager workers. Today the yearly competition for the managers begins. Without good directors, men who are alive to the needs of every individual on the squad and have at heart the success and reputation of the team, any active interest...
...rate, and a great deal has been done since the first pouring of concrete, which took place last April. In all of the buildings but the library, all the structural concrete has been poured, and the construction work is now up to the roof. This structural concrete is the skeleton of the buildings. It is poured in a semi-liquid state into wooden forms, and is reinforced by steel rods. The foundation walls, piers, interior columns and floors are all made of this material. Up to the present 27,000 cubic yards of concrete and 2,600 tons of steel...