Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peiping has been fortunate in possessing an able administration during this entire period, most of them adherents of General Yen Hsi-shan, the 'model governor' of Shansi...
There is his picture of a Boston gentleman, really rich, who has made an art of Thrift (in this case Thrift is really a euphemism for the tightest sort of penny-pinching). He has invented a device, whereby his pretty niece's 1910 model car can be propelled very reasonably on kerosene, once it has been started on the more expensive gasoline. He has had his trousers turned three times. He shares his newspaper with a neighbor. And yet he is the possessor of one of the Hub's hidden fortunes. An exaggerated caricature? Of course, but very good reading...
What lay behind the appointment was President Hoover's desire to make Washington "a model city," to answer repeated Congressional charges that liquor flowed unchecked, that narcotics were peddled under the shadow of the Capitol, that gambling joints and brothels ran wide open, all because the D. C. police were lax and corrupt. Declared President Hoover...
While the representatives of the powers are debating at the London Conference how to preserve peace by a proper balance of military strength, there is being made at New Haven an attempt to bring peace by a student discussion of international problems. The New England Colleges' League of Nations Model Assembly which will be held on April 25-27 will discuss in open forum the problems which are hindering amity among nations...
...calling of a conference which would by diminishing navies, minimize the danger of war. America went to the London Conference with the avowed intention of reducing armaments, but she finds herself in the position of being constrained to continue to build warships to maintain parity with Britain. The Model Assembly may not produce anything tangible in its mild attempt at crusading; but there will be one consolation for the delegates: their deliberations cannot possibly be put into reverse and produce a new spurt of cruiser-building...