Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school students are skilled teachers; few could handle a class. But face-to-face with one or two students, the young tutors find that they can readily impart knowledge, enthusiasm for learning and-by their presence-a model of scholastic achievement...
...sculptor entered an international competition for new portals to replace makeshift oak ones that were considered temporary for 500 years. He won out over 76 other artists. But once he had won, Manzù admitted, the commission bored him. He cast, and then rejected, a scale model of the doors in 1954, eventually discarded more than 300 sketches for the project...
...years the stand-by of the Caterpillar Tractor Co., the world's largest tractor maker, was the basic tractor-a kind of Model T. But Caterpillar has steadily diversified in recent years, now sells 140 different varieties, from a clawlike ripper that crushes rocks to a road scraper that gulps 66 tons of dirt in 42 seconds. Last week the man responsible for this transformation showed just how good it has been for Caterpillar's business: Chairman Harmon S. Eberhard, 64, announced that first-half sales and profits were the highest in the company's 39-year...
...that he and French Transport Minister Marc Jaquet had adjusted the cost to $400 million for each country after studying modifications that will be necessary to give the Concorde more passenger space, greater engine power and larger wing area-partly to make it more competitive with the proposed U.S. model...
...tribe abandoned an islet off the California coast, who for almost 18 years (1835-53) subsisted there in solitude. She is furthermore the subject of a 1960 novel by Scott O'Dell. And she is now the heroine of this intelligent and tasteful little film, the very model of what children's pictures ought to be but seldom...