Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed at first that the entrepreneurs behind the HD-Idler job had missed a point in not making more use of Sanders' natural similarities to the Elizabethan theatre. The original Sanders was a model of the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's day, and today's Sanders is still quite Elizabethan...
...ninth the size of an Essex-class carrier, she was prefabricated at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, trucked to the site in sections. Total cost: $35,000. Topside, she bristles with 20-and 40-mm. and five-inch guns, all exactly scaled. Parked on her flight deck are faithfully scaled models of Helldivers, Hellcats, Avengers and Corsairs (donated by the manufacturers). Her innards-which visitors may see if they buy a war bond-contain a model of a carrier's boiler room, a section of enlisted men's quarters complete with pin-up girls on the bulkheads...
...Model Symbol. In Asia, Japan was making history whose consequences for the world are still incalculable. Through it all, Hirohito remained a model Shinto sovereign-conventional, secluded, aloof, a proper family man as well as national deity. He rose early each morning (6 or 7 a.m.), shaved himself, bowed before the little shrine of his ancestors in his copper-domed Tokyo castle, breakfasted in foreign style on coffee, bacon & eggs, shuffled through the papers on his desk. Thirteen times a year, clad in the white silk robe of high priest, he officiated at major Shinto rites. His wartime frugality...
...annoyed by the nice lady who asked him strange questions and made him put blocks in holes. After the lady decided which group he belonged in, things began to seem better. On the second day, a Mickey Mouse cartoon telling how to pronounce the alphabet, a play session with model airplanes, and a telecast of Mother Goose songs ushered Peter into the wonderful audio-visual-tactual routine that was to keep him fascinated during all eight years of studying the "Common Learnings." At first he disliked being one of the group who got their long vacation in winter (his only...
...ashamed to go home the day he flunked in fifth-grade Tolerance, and again on the day his model crashed into the airport during an eighth-grade flight exam. But it was not until he took his post-Common Learnings aptitude test that he really became troubled: the test unmistakably marked machine-minded Peter as a potential teacher of economics...