Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pointed out that the idea of model assemblies is not new. Right after the conclusion of the World War many such groups sprang up. Students at London, Paris, and many smaller places were organized into international assemblies...
...girl, Susi. Naturally, since Alik is Continental, Susi is not his wife. Possessing the shrewdness of the slums, she manages, when Alik's father ousts her from Alik's modernistic chambers, to take Alik away with her, to make him work. Together they found a model dairy in Prague. Dispelling U. S. qualms, their marriage looms...
With the organization today of a model League of Nations for the Bay region, student cooperation in the promotion of international understanding is once more called to aid the efforts of statesmen and diplomats. The idea is not new, since within the last year or two, similar assemblies have been held at Mount Holyoke, Vassar, and Amherst. But in the development of this latest organization, there is much that may remedy the difficulties that have impeded former attempts...
Meanwhile, however, Mr. Ford maintains that he lost no money in changing over from Model T to Model A. According to a story widely circulated in financial circles, Ford-maker Ford, after deciding upon his model change invested heavily in General Motors stock. Inasmuch as the General Motors stock increased in value somewhat in proportion to the stories concerning Ford difficulties with its new models, so Mr. Ford made on General Motors what he lost on his reorganization program. "Shrewd!" said many a Ford-worshipping U. S. citizen, "Henry can't be beat." But closest Ford observers received this...
...said, "was the bumptiousness of the amateur." To revise it was an "unspeakable satisfaction." Condescendingly he added: "If the people are ever persuaded that the original is better than my version, they will put this aside and perform Boris from the original score." The Rimsky version became a model for opera houses of the world and the medium for Basso Chaliapin's incomparable Tsar. Then, last year. Professor Paul Lamm, working under the music section of the Russian State Publishing Department at Moscow, published a version "in accordance with the autographed manuscripts, including hitherto unpublished scenes, episodes, fragments...