Word: modell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridge crossing the Awash River (see cut), a Swiss machine gun expert named Whittley was working like mad to protect the only railway in Ethiopia at its most vulnerable point. For this purpose he had at his disposal a carload of Swiss anti-aircraft machine guns of the latest model, all the ammunition he required, and a thousand black soldiers who were the worst shots Expert Whittley had ever seen. Finally he figured out a system to offset his gun crews' miserable marksmanship...
Into Los Angeles from his $2,000,000 castle in Death Valley chugged Walter Scott ("Death Valley Scotty") in an old, rebuilt Franklin. Snorted he: "These city trails ain't no place for this locomotive. It's a specially made model for traversing the desert mountains into the Valley. . . . It goes 700 miles without stopping. Got a 100-gallon gas tank and carry ten gallons...
Though they call him "Peabo" behind his back, most "Grotties" consider their Rector the awesome model of a fine New England gentleman. No U.S. headmaster has called forth more reverent tributes. Sample: '"As long as I live his influence will mean more to me than that of any other people next to my father and mother."-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class...
First-Nighter Roosevelt, whose husband has been accused of some fairly impractical promotions, must have winced at Hero Hanna's befuddled, sketchy plans to make his town and State a social and political "model for America." Adept only at rough-&-tumble, Actor Tracy indicates strong emotion simply by blinking his eyes, bobbing his Adam's apple...
...Thompson (I Saw Hitler), was a severe critic of the Nazis and had been expelled from Germany last year, were inclined to believe that Author Lewis had got his picture of a modern dictatorship at second hand, imagining a U. S. totalitarian state cut so closely on the German model that it could not fit the U. S. at any point. And readers of It Can't Happen Here who feel that almost anything can happen in the U. S. are likely to be convinced that it cannot happen in quite the way Author Lewis describes...