Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claiming the longest continued career in silviculture of any similar institution in the land, the Forest has grown from a tract of miscellaneous woodlots and abandoned farmland of 1907, the year it came into the University hands, into a "model forest" and experiment station for demonstrating forestry practices. In addition, the woodland serves as the University's school of forestry for a student body of five...
Both "Gross" and "Lord" concentrated their buying in the field of Applied Science, with a few books in Engineering, Mathematics, and romance languages. In the fall term, "Lord" acquired two slide rules, one of them an expensive circular model, with the forged orders...
...bill which he placed before the legislature, he offered all other Southern states a model way in which to count Harry Truman out. The bill would simply keep Harry Truman's name-or that of any other candidate-off the ballot. Instead of voting for President and Vice President, the voter would cast his ballot for the party. Presidential electors would be bound to support the party's nominees -unless a state party convention ordered them to vote for another candidate before they went to the Electoral College. The bill had Senator Harry Byrd's blessing. That...
...forthright. Stevenson laid into his rival, Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, with one haymaker after another. He accused the Green administration of shaking down Illinois businessmen, of being responsible for the deaths of in men in last spring's Centralia mine tragedy, of neglecting the upkeep of once-model state institutions. He cried: "The unconscionable spoils machine which . . . now holds the state in its grip . . . must be uprooted and the earth scorched...
...avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended the need...