Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacations, which keep them from their beloved halls of knowledge." His entertaining narrative goes on to describe in glowing terms their advanced ideas, their complete and efficient equipment, their artistic as well as scholarly development, and their system of administration, all of which, he declares, might serve as a model for the great institutions of what he calls the civilized world...
...well known, the Oxford Union, models its procedure after the House of Commons. Our debaters do not model themselves after the House of Representatives that would be too deadly but after the best law courts. It is probable that debaters of each country could learn something from the other. But each system of debate is the natural outgrowth of its own college environment. New York Evening Post
...with much success how a candidate for a college degree may be ranked except by written examination. The chief difficulty lies in defining "personality" or "well-rounded development". What is it the prospective student must or must not have? To one man, the "prep" school graduate may appear a model youth of great promise, while another is likely to find him singularly stupid. To fancy that a certificate of rating will accurately pigeonhole a man, indicates a high degree of optimism if nothing else...
...gorgeous Bakst settings and costumes! Korsakow is always remarkably effective with the orchestra, no matter if at times he sounds banal on the pianoforte. The combination of the barbaric splendor or Russian folk-music and oriental sensuousness never fails to charm; his orchestration will forever serve as a perfect model. It is a pity then to think that he is only known to us through "Scheherazade", "Capricco Espagnol", and "LeCoq d'Or", when there are some fifteen other operas and ballets totally unknown outside of Petrograd, Moscow, and Paris...
...used in "The Crows Nest", the action of which takes place in the crows nest of an ocean liner. An invention to represent the curved sky background to the rigging of a ship has been perfected, and is being constructed in the Workshop on the lines of a patented model by Rollow Wayne 2G., who last year was stage manager of the Workshop, and this year has charge of the design, construction and painting of the scenery...