Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived at a "magnificent hotel" (the Y.M.C.A.), and wrote numerous letters to his mother. He was impressed by the fact that Chicago had 1,156,000 telephones, 5,100 lawyers, 3,400 dentists, 9,200 physicians. At his first life class at the Institute, he blushed furiously: the naked model was a girl. "Man, does she have a shape!" he wrote to his mother...
...Arizona was Mom. In New Mexico was his brother Sidney. In San Diego was Pop, married again, working in an aircraft plant. Pop had something to talk over with him. Pop had good-naturedly accused Bill of using him as a model for Willie (see cut). People, noting the resemblance, stopped him on the street. Bill had replied: "I'm not saying anything...
When husband Richard Peete got the news he committed suicide. (Her first husband had killed himself too, leaving her a widow in her teens.) In San Quentin and Tehachapi prisons Louise Peete was a model prisoner. After 18 years she was paroled. She went back to Los Angeles, got a job as housekeeper for one Jessie Marcy, 60. Mrs. Marcy died. Then she kept house for 70-year-old Emily D Dwight Latham, one of the probation officers who had helped her win her parole. Mrs. Latham died. Each time the police investigated. Each time the verdict was death from...
...some two months ago, 61,519 Japanese had been killed, 1,353 captured (U.S. losses: 10,221 killed and missing, 27,704 wounded). Some 20,000 to 30,000 defenders, still alive, might try to hold two possible lines across the island or split into hedgehogs on the German model. Said Major General John R. Hodge, XXIV Army Corps commander: "I think we've got them...
Under Thayer, West Point became the first and model U.S. engineering school...