Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This model young woman, Jane Dahlman (Smith College '35, cum laude), is the daughter of Lawyer Louis A. Dahlman of Milwaukee. Her mother was a Chicago Cudahy, daughter of Patrick, of the packing family, sister of John, who now functions as U. S. Minister to the family's native Ireland. When Miss Dahlman left two months ago to visit Uncle John in Dublin, no one suspected that "Honest Harold" Ickes would slip away to marry her. But slip he did and very proud he was, too, of the slick...
Hundreds of model airplanes will float over the Business School field Sunday as members of the New England Model Junior Aviator's League strive for prizes from 2 to 6 o'clock...
...changed their name because so many people pronounced it "loghead." The company has produced many first-class planes, has had its share of first-class bad luck. After the Northwest Airlines crash in January-when part of the H-shaped tail "fluttered" off a 14-it grounded the model. The fault was corrected by static balances within ten days. About 27 Lockheed 145 have been operating safely ever since...
...readers, Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the End of the Night made strong reading, even in its greatly expurgated translation. But that violent and gory novel is a model of Puritan self-restraint compared with Céline's new, untranslated and probably untranslatable Trifles for a Massacre, current sensation of French literature, in which the novelist's genius for invective, hatred of modern civilization and fertility in cursing it have exploded in an anti-Semitic tirade calculated to end all anti-Semitic tirades, to make Nazis turn green with envy...
...Donald Douglas was a young Annapolis midshipman who preferred sailing on the Severn and making model airplanes to studying navigation and naval tactics. One day Midshipman Douglas climbed to the second floor of the Naval Academy dormitory, let fly a glider he had built. The toy banked, swooped, hit a passing admiral on the head. The result: Donald Douglas left Annapolis abruptly, next year took up the study of aeronautics at M. I. T. After his graduation he worked for Glenn L. Martin, then one of the foremost U. S. airplane designers. First he was an engineer, then...