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Word: modell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Public. The reasons for Clifford's success are not hard to find. He spreads calm and good will like a road-oiling wagon. At home he is a model father to his three daughters, Margery, 15, Joyce, 14, Randall, 7. When they were younger he liked to tell them stories; particularly the story about the boy with his finger in the dike. But when business was on his mind he sometimes lost interest in the story and began mumbling about a law case. "Never mind the law case," the children would shout, "tell us about the boy with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Little Accident | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Arthur L. Thexton was a model business executive. He was making $30,000 a year as vice president of a Cincinnati manufacturing company. Last November, Arthur Thexton asked his business friends a surprising question: What would they think of his going back to school? "I was afraid [they'd] think I was nuts or something," fays Thexton. But they didn't. Some of them even confessed to the same itch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Leaf | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...presumably U.S. rocketmen are making progress. To judge from the photograph (the only information released), the Aerobee is much slimmer and lighter than the V2. It is probably an experimental model built, not to make any impressive altitude records, but to test improvements in motive power and control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: American-Made | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...equipped city bars had telesets. Bob Considine reported: "Television sets have become as obligatory to the bar & grill business as an ivory stick [for] beer suds." And bars that advertised "big screen" drew the customers. One of the biggest king-sized screens, Tradio's 18 by 22 ft. model (see cut), also had a king-sized price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Standard Equipment | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Deadwood members won't last long on a Permanent Class Committee, under the terms of a "Model Constitution" submitted to the Council yesterday by the Special Committee on Class Affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Model for Class Constitutions Set By Council Group | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

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