Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General of the Air Force "Hap" Arnold, grounded at Sonoma, Calif, since his retirement in 1946, made one more break with his past. To the local city fathers he presented his collection of model airplanes (more than 65 exact scale models, covering every phase of aviation history, with wingspreads ranging up to 4 ft ). For one thing, they were cluttering up the house, he explained...
...difficulty is rather a mechanical one--arising from the degree of appropriateness of the mathematical system applied and the onerousness of using it, granted data which are sufficient. Beyond this is the second focus of interest, essentially more attractive and more stimulating. It centers upon the possibility of creating models of individual biological processes. Such models, both mathematical and material, have of course played a considerable role in general physiology,--as aids to the clarification and the concreteness of thinking, and as springboards for new experiments. Somewhat crudely put, but not unfairly the question has arisen: Do complex, fast, computation...
...This traditional model's badge was accidentally originated some 15 years ago by Model Agent John Robert Powers when he gave one of his models a hatbox he happened to have in his office (having just bought a new hat) so that she could carry sundry necessaries with her on her rounds. Usual contents of a model's hat box: make-up kit, extra dresses, shoes, stockings or slips...
Lisa is an expert with a camera, is thinking of combining modeling with a part-time job as a fashion photographer. She has been a top model for 14 years while younger and prettier ones have come & gone, but no one was yet ready to name her successor when and if she stops modeling...
What Every Woman Knows. In one sense, of course, Lisa Fonssagrives would never stop. If her face should disappear from the magazines tomorrow, other faces would crowd to take its place and the American public would scarcely know the difference. For the model is more than an individual; she has become a type and an inevitable part of the American scene. She is everywhere; she smiles down from mountains and from steely skyscraper façades, from billboards and from the most exclusive bars. She is no longer an enticing stranger; the American is fond of her, sometimes irritated...