Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking of the course, or its quasi-prescription for undergraduates against which I protest, but the unconsidered assumption that it represents the model of perfection and the acme of excellence in University teaching. A. Lincoln Gordon...
Until the spring of 1930 Paramount-Publix was considered a model cinema company, issuing stock to pay for expansions. Then it was revealed that it had agreed to buy its stock back should it drop. The late William Wrigley Jr. (gum), Albert Davis Lasker (advertising) and John Daniel Hertz (taxicabs), all Chicagoans, began buying into Paramount. Their man was Sam Katz, of Chicago's Balaban & Katz chain of cinema theatres. At 13 he had played the piano in Carl Laemmle's first 5? cinema theatre on Chicago's west side. At 16 he owned a theatre with...
Phar Lap was not stuffed. Jonas Brothers, New York taxidermists, used his skeleton as the armature for a sculptured clay model. From this they made a mold. Like a sculptor who transfers his clay model to bronze, they transferred theirs to a specially treated paper, hollow and light but strong. On this the skin was stretched after chemical treatment to insure the permanence of its lustre. Many a wild beast has been mounted in this manner, but Phar Lap was the first horse. Sysonby, great racehorse of 25 years ago, was stuffed, is now in Manhattan's American Museum...
...created the New York State Housing Board, chairmanned by Brooklyn's Darwin Rush James. Under its control private corporations were set up to: i) Build model apartments renting for $11 per room per month ($12.50 in congested Manhattan); 2) borrow 663% of their cost on mortgage bonds; 3) pay 5% or less on their borrowings; 4) restrict dividends to 6%; 5) apply surplus to reduce rentals. Since 1927 eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the Amalgamated Clothing...
Jacques Dolent took his military service lightheartedly. Better educated than his companions, he was still fancy free, had no light-o'-love waiting outside the barracks to make him absent-minded during drill. But when he met Florence he did not stay intact long. She was model and mistress to an English painter, Dougherty?not much of a man to look at but good with a brush. Florence was getting tired of Dougherty and Jacques was more attractive. She sent Dougherty off on a trip, invited Jacques to spend his leave with her. When his time was up, Jacques...