Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flanagan. Deciding that the best place to combat human woe is near the beginning of human life, he borrowed $90, found five urchins, started a home for homeless, wayward, neglected boys. Since 1917, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home has become a source of pride to Omaha, a model institution for the nation. Through Father Flanagan's hands have passed 2,984 boys from 36 States. On the Flanagan board of directors are President James Edward Davidson of Nebraska Power Co., Protestant and Shriner, and Henry Monsky, a leading Omaha lawyer, Jew and Shriner. Proud is Father Flanagan...
...physics embodied in the second law of thermodynamics: energy can flow only from a more intense state of availability to a less intense state. Professor Richard Chase Tolman of the California Institute of Technology applied Professor Albert Einstein's relativity theory to thermodynamics, worked out a mathematical model of the universe in which energy does not flow continually downward, but expands and contracts in cycles, never reaching a state of equilibrium. Therefore he concluded that though the universe may be expanding in the neighborhood of the earthstars moving outward in space, radio-active elements breaking down into less energetic...
Strenuous advertising copy is ready for launching next week. Excerpt: "Forceful as Rockne himself was forceful; practical as he was practical; stirring as his influence was stirring." The Rockne Six (the trade quickly called it the Rockne Coach) will sell at two prices. One model will compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth, marking Studebaker's entrance into the low priced field. The other will sell in the Pontiac and Essex range...
...Graaff turned up the lights and smiled into a circle of marveling faces. A few nights later he was to demonstrate his $90 lightning to the American Institute of Physics in Manhattan. After that he was to build a bigger, 10,000,000-volt model of his ribbon-&-copperball generator at M. I. T. He believes 50,000,000 volts may be possible...
...cartel (TIME, Oct. 26).* Last week Ford's world 1931 production was estimated by the New York Daily Investment News at 800,000 cars, equal to the estimate for Chevrolet, greater than that of any other competitor. Also last week, a Ford wage-cut heralded a new Ford model...