Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan last week, Patrolman Joseph Gardner took into custody a modern exemplar of this excruciating old breed. Officer Gardner got his evidence by spending an evening with one eye glued to a crack in the window shade of Peter Gorgak's barbershop on Third Avenue. Through this peephole he could see in the barbershop mirror an incongruous sight: Mr. Gorgak sitting in his own barber chair having his teeth drilled and dentaled up by a stranger...
...other historic instances confirm the European source of our own art of city planning. Our most striking inventions, our most useful techniques, have often had their beginnings across the seas. . . . Those magnificent parkways, for example, which reach out in all directions from our great cities have their prototype and exemplar in the autostrade which star the cities of Hanover and Berlin...
...invasion of its markets by fuel oil, gas and water power have starved it. Its rachitic bones show through in dingy, paint-scaled mining towns, in the pay average of its workers: $902 (before deductions) last year, although their daily wage scale is $6 ($5.60 in the South). Prime exemplar of old-fashioned atomic competition, the industry has 13,500 producers, none of whom does 5% of the total business...