Word: replica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goshen's well-to-do E. Roland Harriman, co-owner with Major Elbridge Gerry (now overseas), got the one-year custodianship of the gallon-sized Hambletonian "cup," and a pint-sized replica for keeps. These he probably valued more than Titan's $27,608.33 share of the purse, which he needs less than Titan needs...
...wedding cake was a replica of the White House, with a minister standing in the door, and a little Scottie labeled Fala playing on the lawn...
With 27 helpers, Rowen got busy. Shunning everything that looked like school, he set up workable, toy-like models of the main parts of a B29, beginning with a propeller that could be operated from an exact replica of B-29 controls, and ending with a mockup of a whole plane in which student reactions could be tested when things went wrong. Charts and graphs of fuel and electrical systems were also converted into full-scale mockups, covered with Plexiglas or painted in bright colors so that students could see what happened when they worked the controls. Result: fascinated trainees...
...Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne County, Wyo. held "pie socials." Funnyman S. J. Perelman and Author John Roy (Under Cover) Carlson exhorted the people of Pittsburgh. Troops simulated airborne attacks on Chicago. In The Bronx, bond-buyers were allowed to ring a replica of the Liberty Bell. In Manhattan, buyers were permitted to eat their way through a five-layer, six-foot-high cake, or take a trip through a model aircraft carrier...
Wand & Club. Readers who expect The Blue Danube to be a replica of Author Bemelmans' earlier, inimitable works, My War with the United States (TIME, July 5, 1937), The Donkey Inside (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) and I Love You, I Love You, I Love You (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942), will be disappointed. In its 153 pages they will find the usual bitter-sweet taste and tragicomic personalities-freakish but heartwarming outcasts; birds and animals with the attractiveness of charming children; the waiters scurrying to & fro with black bread, liverwurst and seidels of foaming beer; chestnut and willow trees; nostalgia...