Word: design
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horsepower locomotive may weigh 20 or 30 tons. A small Ford motor weighs over 200 pounds and develops only 25 horsepower or so. The Liberty motor weighs 873 pounds for its 400 horsepower, i. e. a little over two pounds per horsepower. The great object of the aero-engine design is to achieve the truly wonderful goal of one pound per horsepower. This is almost attained by the two new Packard motors, descriptions of which have just been made public by Mr. Macauley. The smaller of the two develops 500 horsepower at 2,000 revolutions per minute and weighs...
...Chicago was held last week the 38th annual exhibition of the Chicago Architectural Exhibition League. Many famed architects displayed designs: James Gamble Rogers, builder of the Harkness Memorial at Yale, showed a group for the AEtna Life Insurance Co., Hartford-an interesting study in late colonial. Architects Holabird and Roche exhibited their model for a stadium at Grant Park, Chicago, the Propylseum of Athens transplanted, magnified. Yet, for all the presence of these able builders, the exhibition seemed to be a memorial to one now dead, one who was perhaps the greatest of U. S. architects -Bertram G. Goodhue...
...jail forever before I will give the key of my design to that committee...
Armillary Sphere is a great sundial cast in the design of that ancient astrological instrument, the armillary. Man and woman repose at its base; the goat, the lion, the bear, the ram, pursue each other in its wheels, while the armillary seems to spin, with slow laughter, through interstellar space...
...competition has been opened to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, regardless of whether or not they are members of the Hasty Pudding Club, and the artist who submits the winning design will become a member automatically...