Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Model T and a mule met on a narrow road and neither would give way. "What are you?" said the mule to the Model T. "I'm an automobile," replied the Model T, "and what are you?" To which the mule replied: "I'm a horse." Then they both laughed and shared the road...
Lisa Fonssagrives, America's top fashion model, is the 110th woman to appear on TIME'S cover (TIME, Sept. 19). In a manner of speaking, she represented all of them. As the cover story pointed out, a model is the advertising professions' Everywoman...
Working on the theory that any re-routing of traffic in existing channels was only a stop-gap measure, these three devised a revolutionary scheme to redesign the entire Cambridge shopping center (see model). Creating new arteries of traffic and increasing parking space, their blueprint for a safe-and-sane Harvard Square would solve the automobile problem now faced by every city laid out in the days of the horse and buggy...
...decides has been duplicated. For engineering purposes, as in the "no hands" operation of a production line, this may be quite immaterial (so long as men keep the surrogate in good working order). But the physiologists's job is different. What he seeks is not merely an overall model. He really looks for an understanding of the actual mechanisms whereby the organic, biological machine operates. An even partially successful model may be enormously helpful in furthering this quest, in a particular case; but its character as an analogical crutch must not be lost sight...
...kinetic mechanism with all its defects serving as a ladder toward specific experimental inquiry. He is not so crude as to look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when he peers at muscle fibers in electron microscope pictures, though this kind of model has had brilliant uses for some purposes. On the other hand he knows in a practical way, as the logician knows, that reasoning by analogy from dynamical properties of the model is liable to stumble over imperfections in the analogy...