Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...despite the handicaps of limited training with outmoded equipment, the 1940 Harvard model of a second lieutenant will be a capable artilleryman. The course authorities make no claim to turning out finished officers. Six weeks of summer camp plus experience on duty after graduation must take care of the details. However, it is the Department's boast that their product will be the equal of any West Point graduate as a Field Artillery expert and as commander of a gun battery...
Today, in a model Navy where none of the old brutality is left, the Marine's police duty is little more than nominal...
...driven armies. Tiny Greek citizen armies defeated huge Persian armies of slaves. The unarmored English longbowmen of Crecy and Agincourt beat the armored French knights who were "their liege lord's men." Washington's burning militia trounced the paid Hessians of George III. "Cromwell's New Model Army," said Wintringham, "is still the best model for British fighting men." But can a People's Army stop modern motorcycle troops, whose guns can cut a man in half in two seconds at 100 yards, planes with their nerve-raveling noises? Wintringham thinks so. His book tells...
Next, the leg is set in a "Griswold machine"-a 20th-century model of the rack. The pins are connected on both sides to a kind of caliper and the leg is gently stretched until the two broken ends snap into place. While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assistant watches the bone through a fluoroscope to make sure the ends are fitted. The leg stays in the machine...
...same old-fashioned dances his boss likes, even likes to eat roasted soybeans, soybean bread, soybean soup. With a soul-deep belief in every Ford dream, Boyer last week was stunned with joy. His chief gave him authority to order a complete set of dies for the first road model of the plastic automobile...