Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tennessee is one of 15 states which have decided to prepare their youngsters for the air age (model planes are already being built as part of the Army-Navy program...
Well Done! In London, "Potato Pete," the poster model who has long urged Britons to eat more potatoes, was lauded and then fired by his boss, the Ministry of Food. His persuasiveness had created a shortage of spuds...
...Last Ditches. But in other towns there had been last-ditch fighting. After the first few days, the Germans seemed to have lost heart and direction; Field Marshal Walther Model was said to have flown out. The Americans had a large-scale victory of annihilation: 176,000 prisoners had been taken; only about 30,000 German troops remained in the severed pocket...
...last week Le Bosquel was rising from its ruin. The Ministry of Reconstruction had chosen it to be a model for the rebuilding of France's shattered villages. Famed Architect Le Corbusier had planned its new form : a brick church and schoolhouse, a mairie fashioned from local clay, a paved square with a pond, homes and farms set in a concentric pattern that did away with the clumsy, age-old system of scattered land holdings. Now a bustling team of 70 blue-uniformed boys, recruited by the Ministry of Labor from bombed-out Picardy families, were clearing debris...
Cameron Forbes, football player. Harvard coach, farmer, financier and onetime Governor of the Philippines, was a model for Oliver, central character of Santayana's novel The Last Puritan. He wrote somber poetry, which he showed to Santayana; it was not well composed "but the thought was so original, so wise and so courageous, that nothing in Emerson has ever pleased me more." A grandson of Emerson, Forbes was like Santayana's other Boston friends whose lives illustrated the decline of the age of great merchants. "They were in one sense its ripe fruits, but in another sense they...