Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Department store executives in the know have issued one caution this Christmas. If possible, don't guess her size. They've found from experience that men who persuade salesgirls to model their purchase "Because she's just your size" are apt to underestimate their lady's weight by a healthy five or ten pounds...
...most damaging evidence was given by Carabinero (security police) General Manuel Alvear, who said that Argentine Consul Luis Zervino had warned him that Chile's situation was grave, that it could be mended only by a military government on the Argentine model. Zervino had told him that a revolutionary movement was under way and advised him to get on the bandwagon. Zervino had also said that the revolt might be headed by Ibañez or by General Jorge Berguno (now in Buenos Aires, a fugitive from Chilean justice...
...million-dollar discovery, what we were dreaming about for 14 months in Africa." The discovery of Swartkrans Man should buttress the theory, not previously accepted by all paleontologists, that nature experimented, something over a million years ago, with big, lumbering men* before settling finally on the present model...
...wintertime, when the roads were too bad even for a model T, Dr. Buck used to make his calls in a horse & buggy. He traded in his model Ts every four months, and wore out 22. Last week the American Medical Association, meeting in St. Louis, picked Dr. Buck, 61, from three nominees offered by the board of trustees, as the general practitioner of the year...
When he had lectured at the school before, every child had seemed a model of behavior. That behavior, he concluded, was the result of a chastening caning now & then. So Eric Wildman, who manufactures whipping canes and recently organized Britain's Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment, had felt very much at home at Horsley Hall...