Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smithsonian Institution last week began to set up beside its model of the Leviathan an 18-ft. 5,200 lb. model of the late British liner Mauretania, received with the compliments of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...syndicated newspaper column had pointed out that useful public construction was an arithmetical impossibility if 3,500,000 unemployed were to share the allotted four billion, characterized the whole Federal program as "a more ambitious kind of leaf-raking." In Manhattan, however, now that he had been made Model No. 1 for the 48 other Works Progress Administrators who will be designated to supervise state Federal spending, the loyal General changed his tune, promised "no boon- doggling." Most of New York's municipal organization of 3,000 professional relievers General Johnson planned to retain. For his immediate official family...
Theoretically the Bank of England is a purely private institution. Its stock is owned by private investors and its officers and directors are private individuals. In practice, of course, the Bank of England is a model central bank, subordinating private profits to public weal. And in the 241 years since the bank was founded, tradition has encrusted the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street with powers over British banking that would turn...
Last spring, according to Dr. Carrel, "a model was developed that for the first time permitted an entire organ to live outside the body. . . . After 123 years the conception of Legallois was realized...
...trays, sets of drawing instruments and water colors. Just outside stood four army cots. Then for three successive weekends the four contestants were shut in these closets for 36 hours straight, given three successive problems to work out. Food and sleep were optional. First problem was to design a model dairy. Second was an industrial arts museum. The third test called for the interior of an opera house...