Word: design
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instrument used to locate subsurface metals. Last week, under a bridge, the needle dipped strenuously. The prospectors seized shovels, dug, ejaculated, waved their shovels in muddy triumph. Their buried treasure was not a cache of pirate bullion, or a mastodon's skull, but an 18-foot iron hull designed to run under water; a submarine of primitive design...
Scores of U. S. citizens under 30 years of age submit, each year, their best work in painting, in sculpture, in architectural or landscape design, to compete for four Prix de Rome scholarships. Each of the.four winners receives $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus lodging and studio at the American Academy in Rome for three years, plus life membership in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan...
Last week the scholarship in landscape design was awarded to a man weighing 150 pounds, who played centre on the Cornell University football eleven, who was highest in scholastic standing in the 1927 class at Cornell College of Architecture. His name: Michael Rapuano, 23, of Syracuse, N. Y. His landscape design for a museum of fine arts in a municipal park was the best of the 1927 competition...
...definite effects of color combinations, when brought out through striking designs, are well known to psychologists. Color alone has not curative qualities, but color expressed in design...
...started three weeks before, snored down across the finish line of the third National Reliability Tour into Ford Airport, Detroit. First to cross the line was a Pitcairn Mailwing. Four seconds later came Pilot Eddie Stinson of Detroit, with seven passengers in a cabined monoplane of his own design. Of the merit points awarded for keeping to schedule, not having accidents, fuel economy, etc.-he had 2,000 more than any other contestant. The ships had traveled 4,200 miles, from Detroit to New England, down the coast to Baltimore, cross country via Pittsburgh and Cleveland into Michigan again, back...