Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton Man, yes. You could hardly miss him. Tweeds and a good pipe and that sort of thing. He's handsome in an orthodox manner-- looks a bit like a collegiate clothes-model in Esquire. Fresh, the lady novelists would call him. He likes week-ends and New York, gets sentimental over the Tiger and a glass of beer...
...parochial schools get an old-fashioned schooling, and most Catholic educators have no kind word for progressive education. One exception is brainy, brawny George Johnson, head of Catholic University's education department and educational director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Four years ago Dr. Johnson started a model elementary school attached to Catholic U.'s Sisters College, which trains nuns to teach in parochial schools. Aware that the strict curriculum of parochial schools (which enroll half of U. S. Catholic children) repelled many a Catholic parent, Dr. Johnson decided to take a leaf from progressives...
This week, as his school began its fifth year and study of the Ten Commandments (approached through study of U. S. laws), Dr. Johnson had some 150 pupils and was busy answering questions from interested Catholic educators. Hoping that his school would be a model for U. S. Catholic schools. Dr. Johnson reminded them that St. Paul had exhorted the Ephesians to learn "by doing." that Pope Pius XI had urged the Catholic priesthood to be "healthily modern...
...nimble Ohio farm boy named Henry M. Barnhart was operating a balky steam shovel, grubbing gravel from the Kenton, Ohio, pits for the roadbed of the new Chicago & Atlantic Railroad (now Erie). Irritated by repeated breakdowns of his crude machine, he built a model of a better one, showed it to farm machinery maker Edward Huber. Practical Mechanic Huber knew a good thing when he saw it. He got together with Inventor Barnhart and Hayman George W. King, founded the Marion Steam Shovel Co., began turning out the "Barnhart shovel...
...sorted ambassadors' reports, paid secret agents, inspected fortresses and accounts. Sometimes the Signory sent Machiavelli on diplomatic missions. At the Vatican he began his firsthand study of power politics under such masters as Pope Alexander Borgia and his alleged son Cesare. Cesare Borgia was Machiavelli's model for the Prince...