Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Challenge from Belgium. Out of habit the Army spurned the chance to tap private industry for new ideas, turned instead to its arsenal at Springfield, Mass., which developed such trusty performers as the bolt-action Model 1903 of World War I and the M 1 Garand of World...
...horizon that gave promise of being superior to either. It was developed (at no cost to the taxpayer) in a Los Angeles machine shop by George Sullivan. 46, a Lockheed Aircraft Corp. patent attorney and engineer, whose hobby is guns. After Sullivan had produced a successful experimental model, he was taken under the wing of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. and turned out 30 copies of a highly efficient, 2¼-lb., unsinkable, survival-kit, .22-cal. rifle for the Air Force's Strategic Air Command crews...
...world's top-earning, high-fashion model, Manhattan's svelte Dovima (a blend of her given names, Dorothy Virginia Margaret), 28, announced that she will soon up her posing rate from a classy $60 an hour to a classier $75. Reason: just like a baseball player, Dovima, a onetime $30-a-week candy counter girl, really wants her golden years to pay off. Lean, long Dovima sighed a prediction: "Photographers still like us as long, lean and thin as ever for fashion. But I think they are looking for a more natural, happy look instead of the gaunt...
...English Literature, he served on his freshman class committee and was business manager of P.B.H.'s annual Handbook. He enrolled for one term at the Business School in 1925, after finishing his College course requirements at midyears of his senior year and spending several months touring Europe in a Model T. When he entered White, Weld, he had not expected to enjoy investment banking, but by 1936 he found it enough to his liking, despite the crippling Depression, to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for a reported...
...spell of the floating city is Critic and Novelist Mary McCarthy (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955), who has fashioned the spectacle of Venice into a handsome and intelligent mosaic of art, history and personal impressions. Complete with 46 elegant color reproductions and more than 100 photographs, Venice Observed is a model travel book in that it heightens the reader's perceptions and gives him a sense of place without sentimentally usurping the place of sense...