Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these college-boy partisanships to do with serious matters of artistic beauty where large and vital loyalties are at stake? Suppose a Yale critic were to impugn the taste, which should set up a piece of poetic sentimentality like, let us say. Longfellow's "Psalm of Life" as a model and touchstone for young lovers of poetry. Should we not, Harvard and Yale men alike, regard him as performing an important public service? Yet the "Psalm of Life" is almost good as compared with "The Lamp in the West", and musical standards among us are intolerably low as compared with...
...Ruggles put off for Chicago and asked Judge Olson to be chairman of a national society to promote this kind of executive direction in other courts. Judge Olson accepted and the American Judicature Society has since, as Lawyer Root said in his letter, served as a model for a vast amount of research. But only last week was it realized in high places that a public spirited layman was responsible. Only last week did Judge Olson declare: "No individual has contributed more toward court reform in the last 50 years than Mr. Ruggles...
...near Ballston Spa, N. Y., well remembers the towing car that thunders out to fetch cripples into Ballston Spa's leading garage. A sturdy, determined car of incredible age, seemingly, a car strangely difficult to classify as to make. For the wheels are obviously old Cadillac ones, about 1911 model; the radiator, an even more ancient Speedwell part. Something about the headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with Cadillac steering wheel. Pryers into the car's internals...
...have posed in my day," the model said, "for Degas.* I guess I am good enough for a lot of infants like these...
...tone of the Associated Press despatches serve as a model of sportsmanlike conduct. The headlining of a poor decision by a linesman as an excuse for the defeat is scarcely in the best of taste, especially since an equally crucial judgement went against Suzanne. The future of America to triumph either morally or physically goes far to restore the French morale. For the second time in history, a tennis court is the rallying point of the nation...