Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bronx-cheer. Pontiac-typically Midwest, a small town with a one-street business district-had just gone to work at 9 a.m. when the Willkie motor caravan passed through, with the bareheaded candidate waving from an open car, cameramen standing smoking in a truck, a score of shiny 1941 model cars stuffed with aides, newsmen and political small fry. Near the railroad tracks, a half-dozen blocks from the town centre, Willkie got his first real baptism by booing: a three-story red-brick General Motors assembly plant sprouted workers at every window, and up went the boos, loud, clear...
...factory windows booed louder & louder. Snaggle-toothed old women stood with feet planted wide, arms out, thumbs down in the ancient gesture. Viragoes spat and jeered. Men with smut and grease on their dungarees shook their fists, bellowed epithets. On through the dingy streets rolled the shiny, new 1941-model cars, past Toledo Machine & Tool Co., the Willys-Overland plant. Outside the heavy-meshed "strike fences" stood mocking, spindle-legged children, hard-muscled men, mustached old women. "Hello, rats!" they shouted. In front of -Electric Auto-Lite Co., scene of bloody labor battles between strikers and National Guardsmen, greybeards shook...
...show "what a pastime of man this has been," how it developed, what art went into it. It traced the course from slingshots and clubs through policemen's billies to the butt end of a rifle; from Roman helmets through medieval to modern Italian; from crossbow to a model of a railroad gun-which could shoot a real .22 bullet...
When questioned on her opinion of Harvard men, the ex-Powers model said she had no comment. However, she stated that she had planned to visit a History I lecture, but was advised not to do so, since her presence would cause a minor riot not unlike that of 1938 when all the alarm clocks went...
...Hall, it was on the northern side of town, and it looked across a little "Yard" to the back of the old houses just as Grays does to the back of Wadsworth. The Old College of 1642 was itself much like an enlarged edition of a house, as the model in Hunt Hall shows...