Word: modell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about a gentleman who had been "a millionaire until the War broke out, when he at once became a multimillionaire. He was offered a knighthood for his services on the field of finance, but humbly refused the honor in a letter which, his newspapers said, should be a historic model for all letters refusing knighthoods. Later on he refused a baronetcy in the same simple and sincere way. But at length he accepted a barony, excusing himself on the ground that he was getting too old for letter-writing." There is another, about a Lord who was "wealthy beyond...
After the Armistice streets in many Italian cities were named Via Wilson, Via d'Annunzio or Via Fiume, to suit changing enthusiasms. To name a street for Mussolini is not enough. So it is reported from Milan that a "model city" will be constructed in southern Italy in honor of the modest Benito and that this city will bear "for all time" the novel name of "Mussolini...
...result of a competition of the Garden Club of America Show in New York, the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture took a first prize medal for its model of four houses and four gardens designed in a group, submitted in the class open to Schools of Landscape Architecture. The design used for the construction of the model was the winning drawing of the annual Topiarian Club Competition held last January with special reference to the Garden Club Show...
...statue was the gift of Samuel James Bridge '80 and was erected in 1884. Daniel Chester French designed the figure, using Sherman Boar '82 as his model...
...scientific award in America is probably the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, awarded annually for "meritorious achievement in electricity." The Edison Medal for 1923 was awarded to John William Lieb, operating Vice President of the New York Edison Co., who has made New York the model light and power city of the world. Over 30 years ago, when Lieb was just out of Stevens Tech, he got a job with Thomas A. Edison. The firm had a contract to build a great electrical plant in Italy. "Send Lieb," said Edison. He was only...