Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speak athletic improvements of Holmes are at once the most striking and the most interesting. A new quarter-mile track, one of the best, if not the best, of the quarter-miles in the country,- and a new nicely-turfed diamond, with a catcher's fence that is a model of fine workmanship, are the most important reforms. In addition, however, the field has been well levelled and graded; and by the enterprise of the Tennis Association several new and exceedingly fine courts have been constructed. Thus, Holmes Field has come to be the principal arena of the athletic contests...
...Hull, Newspaper Advertising Agents, of New York, a large book giving to advertisers information of the daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers, magazines, and periodicals of the United States. Several college papers are noticed, among them the CRIMSON, and Lampoon. The book is invaluable to advertisers. It is moreover, a model of typographical work...
...also be deposed by a direct vote of censure, and hold office simply at the will of the House, irrespective of the expipiration of the speaker's term. All bills pass through the regular parliamentary course in their consideration, and we have indeed found it possible to imitate our model, the British House of Commons, quite closely. This, I am compelled to say, I do not see how the Cornell students can very well do. The rules of Congress are designed to check debate; those of the House of Commons to facilitate it. But apart from this, the Cornell...
...says, "as to prevail with her mother to come to Auchinleck, where they stayed four days; and in our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity." I fear that although his courting was carried on in such a poetical way Boswell was not shaped enough on the Greek model to make such wooing a complete artistic success, for he straightway begins to feel that his suit is not prospering, and summons a friend to help him. His friend was to visit the 'divinity' at her home, and plead for him; and Boswell sent him the following "Instructions...
...more clay courts, which will be laid out during this present summer on various parts of Homes and Jarvis Fields. The durability, tested by the experiment of actual play during the spring, and the general satisfaction, will determine which of the five courts is to be chosen as a model. These five clay courts will be ready for play by the middle of April, and the turf courts will be ready early in May. The association will temporarily lay out and mark the present courts to the best of its ability, probably 15 in number. This will afford 30 courts...