Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First step was to make a clay model of the mutilated head exactly as it was found. Next, with the assistance of police surgeons, Sculptor Guinzburg began to patch up the missing features, combining them in six different models. Haverstraw's Who was modeled: i) with the right eye closed, the left eye open; 2) squinting; 3) with a closed jaw and a hard & firm mouth; 4) with a bulbous nose; 5) with a mustache. Model No. 6, brought to New York last week, was a composite of all the others. New York City police were impressed...
...covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into the figure. The viscera as well as the glassy frame of the transparent woman are made of a material called cellhorn, which is tough, resilient, impervious to temperature and humidity...
Designer Seversky then stripped his amphibian of its pontoons, entered it in an Army trainer competition. Despite jeers from other competitors, it won a contract for 35 planes at a cost of $874,000. Designer Seversky continued to tinker his plane, last June produced a pursuit model which is said to be among the world's fastest, with a top speed of nearly 300 m.p.h. After a competition at Dayton, the Army bought...
Your Art article [TIME, Aug. 10] about Harvard's model forest says that the leaves were "etched out of paper-thin sheets of copper picked up with a magnet...
...retype a speech because the margins were too narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never smoked, never drank, never swore-and does not to this day. He worked nights, sent money to his mother, put up with a miserable French boarding house in Manhattan to learn another language. Shortly before the company he worked for failed, he went west to Oklahoma City...