Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good." He announced that seven captured rioters would be tried for their lives. He promised to make special penal recommendations to the legislature next month concerning: 1) A five-year building program to increase prison accommodations by 3,000; 2) Construction of a new 1,000-men model prison at Attica; 3) Increase in prisoners' daily ration allowance from 21¢ to 26¢ 4) Work for every prisoner, with pay for all work...
...same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could not put 100 million dollars in jail. The President's efforts to make Washington a model dry city were parodied with "The Song of Firewatha in the Land of Many Ha-Has." The Hoover "new patriots" were revealed as patrioteers; erstwhile Hoover advisers (Dr. Work, Horace Mann, James Francis Burke) appeared as ragged continentals, badly frost bitten out in the cold...
...water instead of cutting through it. This revolutionary design, now largely used in speed boats, produced the first boats to make 60 m. p. h. in a contest. In designing his early boats, Chris Smith used no blue prints. Instead, he carved out a small wooden model of the hull. With this in his pocket he went to nearby Walpole Island, picked out a likely looking tree for his boat, and carefully watched over its cutting and seasoning. Now there is a factory to turn out his boats by the hundred, but he still likes to get his own hands...
Mussolini has explained time and again that Fascism is an entirely Italian product and that it is a silly waste of time for others so endeavor to model their governments along its lines. Only recently the Italian Ambassador to this country, De Martino, has confuted in concise and forceful language the aspersions cast upon the activities of Italian societies and of the Italian government in this country...
Strange were the gifts sent to a violinist who last week gave a recital in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Instead of flowers his dressing room was piled high with toys. Over the footlights he received a large model airplane, numerous boxes of candy. All this was greatly to the liking of Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, 9, who had that evening played his first Eastern recital...