Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twins Dino Grandi and Italo Balbo are no relation to each other but look almost exactly alike, cut their beards identically, wear exactly the same model of starched collar. Every North American knows Foreign Minister Dino Grandi since he called on President Hoover (TIME, Nov. 16, et seq.) Every South American knows Air Minister General Italo Balbo since he led eleven Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes on a flight across the Atlantic from Italy to Brazil (TIME...
Harvard will be represented this winter at the fifth annual New England Model League of Nations, when its delegation, representing France, travels to Brown University on March 3, it was announced yesterday. For the second consecutive time a Harvard man is president of the Council, D. H. Popper '32 officiating at the session...
Sportsman William Henry Vander-"hilt, whose four-in-hand coach was used as a model for the current edition of Christmas seals of the National Tuberculosis Association (TIME, Dec. 7). complained because the artist placed the driver on the left side of the box instead of the right...
Precluded by the nature of democracy from brilliant gestures of defiance American students have devised another method for the outlet of their political emotions. There are model Leagues of Nations, model Congresses, model Conferences. There are huge peace delegations, there are yearly hegiras to Geneva, there are pamphlets urging the Christian precepts of peace. Students discuss, suggest, construct methods for a cleanly local government, an omniscient national government, an everlasting, international peace. These are doubtless all very pleasing intellectual exercises and they may produce some excellent suggestions, but students labor under a difficulty which is well nigh insurmountable. Most undergraduates...
...pictures of Atlantic liners, Nantucket whalers, Mississippi steamboats, British, French, Dutch ships of the line-but he also specializes. Pride of his portfolios is a special collection of every steamboat that ever plied the Long Island Sound. He has a model of the Isaac Newton, first steamer on the Hudson to have three tiers of staterooms. He has not one but several lithographs of the Atlantic, first Sound steamer to use illuminating gas. One thing he lacked: a picture of the Glen Cove, first Sound steamer to be equipped with a steam calliope for the entertainment of the passengers...