Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening exercises will be conducted in the open courtyard in the center of the building. This courtyard has been carried out in Italian traventine, and has a double arcade with Doric pilasters below and Ionic pilasters and columns above, this motif running around all four sides. The model for this double arcade has been furnished by the front of the presbytery of the Church of the Madonna di San Biazio, by Antonio da San Gallo at Montepulciano...
Tests of the device last week produced plowing like clockwork. But when Mr. Zybach was first experimenting with a crude model, his neighbors warned him not to let the tractor get loose and destroy any of their property. Once he set the machines to plough all night. The neighbors came over at midnight and implored him to stop...
...John F. McGill suggested his Napa valley estate, airmailed his invitation and a folio showing panoramic views of the estate, interiors of his residence. Inducements: Six master's bedrooms, five baths, cherry orchard, model farm, $200,000 home, sunken gardens, terraced lawns, fountains of imported marble, 17 rooms, 2,000 acres. Location: Napa Valley, northern California...
...Lind and General Tom Thumb. The reviewer wonders how many readers shared his own ignorance of the fact that Barnum brought Jenny Lind to this country. The Swedish Nightingale was given to the American public as a proof that the sponsor of Joice Heth, the Fejee Mermaid, and the Model of Niagara could also produce some legitimate and more high-hat entertainment. Except for a few financial statements, the story of Jenny Lind is well worth reading...
...model Rolls-Royce-the "Phantom"-appeared last week at the Springfield, Mass., Rolls-Royce U. S. factory site. It has six brakes. 55 points for lubrication (all operated by single motion from the driver's seat.) and a silent, reciprocating engine of one-third more power than the present "Forty-Fifty" Rolls-Royce. These represent the first distinct changes in Rolls-Royce models in 15 years, said Chairman Henry J. Fuller...