Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that the British people as a whole cannot be made responsible for all this. It is that Jewish plutocratic and democratic upper crust, which, in all peoples of the world, desires to see only obedient slaves and which hates our new Reich because it sees in it a model for social work which it fears because it might prove contagious in their own country...
None of the others amounted to anything, but young Churchill had scarcely left the table when his Imperial career began. He went to Cuba during the rebellion against Spain as a war correspondent. Spain in Cuba seemed to him a model of all that Imperial rule should not be: irresponsible, wasteful, harsh, above all vindictive and vengeful. In India too he pondered (meanwhile playing polo, serving on the frontier, reading Gibbon, moral philosophy, history and military strategy) and after writing The River War, a description of the Sudan campaign, and a terrible novel, decided to take up literature and politics...
Since then auto production has gone down a smooth grade to the late summer valley where the industry will change to its 1940 production models. Impatient for the next rise, the industry set the New York automobile show, which officially opens the 1940 model year, to begin October 15, earlier than ever before. But even this did not satisfy the impatience of motormakers to get the fall selling season started...
Measure of the technological progress of U. S. rubber engineering is the difference between a 1926 (4.40 by 21) tire and a 1938 (6.00 by 16) tire: model 1926 sold for $24, ran an average of about 14,000 miles, costing the average U. S. car owner 1.69 mills a mile; model 1938 sold for $19, ran an average of almost 27,000 miles, cost the average U. S. car owner only .73 mills a mile. The auto industry has not stood still, but it has not any better record...
...child life," as inevitable and necessary as the smoking-room stories with which politicians and even professors give "meaning and significance to otherwise unwieldy subjects." She suggests that parents and teachers recognize the educational value of children's folk literature, that writers for children use it as a model. Says she, sagely: "[Children's] humor involves a laugh at the simpleton. But perhaps children love the simpleton better than the wise...