Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash in on the reputation of "Maedchen in Uniform," "Kadetten," the current German film at the Fine Arts, sets a bit of not-quite-nice love against the background of strict Prussian discipline of a military training school; but the result falls far short of the merit of its model...
Working in his Paris studio, Paul Manship gave a year to the sketches for Paul Rainey's gate. He mapped American brown bear and deer in the foliage grillwork at the top, a lion, leopard and baboon on flanking bronze trees. In plaster he made little models of the animals, then bigger and finally over life-size models. He made a plaster double gate 4 ft. 5 in. high, fitted animals in scale into the design. Then with a pantograph* he made a replica 13 ft. high, then stepped that up to the full...
...Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.. was made president in recognition of the fact that in the last five years he has doubled Fierce-Arrow's share of sales in the fine car market. This spring the company produced mainly for exhibition purposes a $10,000 "Silver Arrow" model without exterior gadgets (spare tires, luggage rack, etc., etc.), with enclosed wheels and scientific streamlining to reduce wind resistance 35%, hailed as forecast of the cars of 1940. Fierce-Arrow is not affected by the receivership of Studebaker which owns a block of Fierce-Arrow stock, for Fierce-Arrow...
Significance. Aeronauts began 100 years ago to try to make steam engines fly, because no other motive power existed. The first successful dirigible, flown by Henri Giffard in 1852, was steam-propelled. Ten years before, W. H. Phillips had sent aloft a small model helicopter with a steam engine in it. Langley's first successful flying model, in 1896, was steam driven. Maxim worked on the idea. But no full size airplane flew. And before one did, Charles M. Manly had built a gasoline engine lighter per horsepower than any steam plant produced so far. When it was proven...
Originally planned as an assembly meeting of the Model Economic Conference, copied after the London Economic Conference which meets in July, the program has been changed considerably to give an opportunity for a discussion of recent events. Three conference committees, which met on Wednesday, have prepared reports on gold and finance, war debts, and trade barriers, respectively. These committees will present their reports after Professor Williams' talk, and their findings will be considered by the whole assembly...