Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having resonantly declared his independence of the Nationalist Government fortnight ago (TIME, April 14). General Yen Hsi-shan, "Model Governor" of Shansi, moved rapidly last week, seized the entire customs receipts of the city of Tientsin, with the exception of the 5% assigned the city by the Nanking Government for liquidation of foreign and domestic debts. There will be left some $4,000,000 a year...
...potent Chinese who thus sounded basso profundo last week was Yen Hsishan, hairy-chested "Model Governor" of Shansi province, the man who has kept his own province peaceable while civil war has festered the rest of China, the leader of this year's spring rebellion against the Nationalist Government...
April 25, 26-Model League of Nations Assembly; at Yale University...
...reluctance of the Air Corps to re-equip with monoplanes has been due to incomplete research into wing construction. At extreme speeds, a monoplane wing is subject to "flutter," or rhythmic oscillation, which leads to rapid destruction of the member involved. The new Boeing model has satisfactorily overcome this difficulty, performs better than its biplane cousin. Equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor, supercharged to develop 475 h. p., it cruises at 165 m. p. h., has a high speed well in excess of 200 m. p. h. It carries two machine guns shooting through the propeller, a bomb-rack...
April 25, 26-Model League of Nations Assembly; at Yale University...