Word: modell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope it will be the last, for such an act implies the existence of differences unwarranted by geographical and racial circumstances on this continent. Chile . . . will do all in her power to help America exhibit this plebiscite to the world as a model and as a genuine expression of that self-determination of peoples which is the axle on which revolves the very political existence of the New World...
...half-pound bottle of horehound drops that had for two weeks adorned the President's desk was steadily being denuded of its contents, noted the presence of a wooden bear with jointed limbs on the desk, a nickel-plated key to a hospital city, a seashell, and a model electric locomotive* a row of reference books, an ash tray, which usually . . . has in it six or more white paper cigar holders, with quill mouth pieces, 'a matutinal bouquet, a pencil rack with ten sharpened pencils, a row of mother-of-pearl push buttons. Another found that the President...
...shoddy room above a fishmarket. His first pulpit was an unadorned wooden plank. His call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church followed years of slumming. This Church soon came to have the largest Presbyterian congregation in Manhattan. Meanwhile, it had been a pioneer in the erection of a model Church House for boys' clubs and the like...
...suffered many vicissitudes in its later history (see index under "Business School circular No. 47" on 'The present situation in the Bakery Trade"). There is one remarkable piece of primitive architecture which apparently served as the monastic refectory. It shows marked Byzantine influence and in its turn became a model for several college chapels in Oxford and Cambridge, England. It seems likely that the style was carried thither by one John Harvard, who was expelled from the monastery, for his peculiar religious views and founded in England a community called Emmanuel College, where thought was intended to be free...
...Harvard Law School is an institution in which about twenty professors and assistant professors are teaching American law to a body of 1200 students. Its requirements for admission and for graduation are very high; its methods of instruction and curriculum introduced by Dean Langdell in 1870, have formed a model for instruction in most of the important schools in America and England; its student body, all college graduates, is drawn from colleges large and small covering the whole United States and Canada, with representatives from English and continental universities. The students are enthusiastic and devoted. Their minds are filled with...