Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers from several foreign countries and urged that all foreign students and their friends make frequent use of the room for reading and social purposes. He further pointed out that hearing the discussions of the Council might prove profitable to those who are interested in the League of Nations Model Assembly which will be held at Harvard this year and he extended them an invitation to attend...
...order to promote a clearer understanding of its work and also of its problems several universities of New England have founded a model of the League of Nations in which students, acting as representatives of the various countries, convene to argue and debate. This replica has no power save that of increased knowledge, its dictums settle little beyond friendly controversies, but its activity fills as definite a need as its parent overseas. The generation which fought in 1917 will not live to fight again, but their children may and it is important that they school themselves so they...
...Wanderer was built in her owners' (W. H. Potter & Co.) yards in Liverpool, launched in 1891. She was the biggest sailing ship yet built, over 300 ft. long, of nearly 3,000 tons. "She was of a full model, wall-sided, rather hard in the bilge and with a flat floor, though she grew somewhat sweeter aft. Above the waterline, she was lovely. . . . She was the last achievement in sailing-ship building and rigging: nothing finer had been done, or ever was done." But her very first voyage started with disaster. While still under tow she ran into heavy...
...various posts. The industry in general is of greatest economic value as it provides employment for many of the inhabitants at a wage which, although small, is greater than they could otherwise command. The employees live in company huts, and plans are being made for the construction of model, sanitary towns where the natives for the first time will have hospitals, clean water supply, and sanitary means of sewage disposal. Native customs are being studied with a view to organizing practical trade schools...
...Doris Podmore, model, last week sued American Tobacco Co. for $250,000 damages. Charge: her picture had been used without her consent in a "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before" advertisement; had resulted in ridicule due to her "delicate state of health,'' had caused a nervous breakdown, further ill health, severe depression...