Word: modell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will refresh the jaded appetite of the land of mechanical efficiency with an exhibition of its own handiworks in wood and clay. And in order that these may not seem out of place in our marble halls, it will display its wares in a miniature setting of Oberammergau. A model of German village life, its daily tasks, and its festivals will be something of a revelation to the stay-at-homes and to the annual Paris-in-a-day Americans as well. If the Passion Players are able to line their purses, they will at least render us some quittance...
...University Forest, consisting of three tracts of land in Petersham totaling over 2000 acres, has been maintained for 14 years under the direction of Professor R. T. Fisher '98, to serve as a model forest to demonstrate the practice of forestry, as a field laboratory for students, and also as an experiment station for research. The Forest has in operation practicable methods of reproducing and improving forests; it has large plantations under test for varying situations; and it is investigating forestry problems of all sorts. It is expected that the new gift will make it possible to develop this scientific...
...built even before the old is entirely destroyed, so that at least the memory of the old may be compared with the products of the new. Turgenieff and Tchekhov are to be superseded by new authors; and they, in aiming at first-group ranking, need only take as a model this line from a recent Russian poet: "I feel a great desire to spit at the moon through the window...
Liaotung is the promontory immediately north of Peking and south of Korea. Its harbors include Port Arthur, of war fame, and Dalny, "model city...
Rene La Montagne: "My three brothers and I are model prisoners in the Essex (N. J.) jail where we are serving sentences for being bootleggers de luxe. We have asked only one favor-that we be allowed to join the other prisoners in shoveling snow and dirt out of the prison yard...