Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from her petition: "Your complainant and your respondent [Heflin] were married to each other in the fall of the year 1894 at Lafayette where the respondent was a lowly cotton grower and where your complainant first elevated him to the rank of a public officer. . . . The respondent was a model husband and his courtship at Lafayette was swift and ardent. . . . "Beginning in the spring of 1928 this respondent began to stay out late at night and was often seen in the company of disreputable characters known as 'Republicans'; he came home in bad moods and would banefully mutter...
...show the mechanism of the body there is a display of the lungs showing that they hold only some four to six quarts of air, but have about 120 sq. yd. of surface with which to absorb oxygen. There is a model to demonstrate how the 10-oz. heart moves a total of 20 tons of blood daily. After the "Man" exhibit, most interest focused on the physical culture section. This shows with models and pictures the various laws which govern the structure and functions of the body. Scenes depict how various peoples and bodies at various times get their...
...Model Governor" of Shansi province, which he has in fact erected into an independent island state (surrounded by China), Yen rightly claims the high distinction of having brought prosperity to 11,000,000 souls, the happiest in China today, despite a food shortage in the southwestern part. His hobbies are not women, whiskey, opium or even gold; but good roads, silkworm culture, soldiers for defense, police to preserve order, and the development of superior cattle, horses, plows, poultry, fertilizers?all things of direct benefit to his rustic people...
...Sirs: True, Stanford once was proud to be "Cornell of the West." Forty years back, giants like Andrew D. White, Goldwin Smith, pushed the newborn Ithaca University ahead of older American colleges. Coeducational, nonsectarian, first to recognize the sciences and technologies, build laboratories, give "practical" courses, Cornell soon became model for the colleges then being founded in the West, among them Minnesota, Stanford. Then lusty young Cornell seemed to be eclipsing Harvard, Yale. Cornell students came from all over the world to sit at the feet of James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, many another great one. Cornell scientists won international...
...political capacity of the Chinege people the author has great confidence. With the tradition of an empire that for centuries was a model of efficiency and well-being far surpassing anything Europe had produced, it is now a question of adapting the old political ideals, to forms more sutable for competition in an industrial age. Force alone cannot hold together a country as wide-spread and as poorly provided with means of transportation as China; a fact amply proved by the failure of any of the generals who have made the bid to establish a secure government during the decades...