Word: design
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alan Beverly Burritt 3S.L.A., of Albion, N. Y. Second and third places have been awarded to Gordon Joseph Culham 3S.L.A., of Toronto, Ont., and Thomas Drees Price 2S.L.A., of Caxias, Brazil. Honorable mention was awarded to Leon Reed Quinlan 3S.L.A., of Weston, Mass. The competition was for the best design of an Italian villa...
Bakst liked the costumes of the American Indians. Striking color values he saw in them, grand material for a U.S. ballet. He confided his ambition to design such a ballet to Morris Gest, producer; also discussed plans by which he was to design scenery and costumes for a new play by D'Annunzio, Italian poet, starring Ida Rubenstein, famed dancer, staged by Max Reinhardt, produced by Gest. "Those five names are five aces," said Mr. Bakst, "better than any poker hand." Bakst's most renowned sets were those he designed for the Chauve Souris, Boris Godunov...
What is the chance of such a sinking? Is it impossible? The grizzled mariner would shake his head. Nothing is impossible. In two ways may a ship be sunk?by being crushed, by being capsized. Naval architects are not hired to design ships that a storm could crush. Such a feat would yield neither profit nor honor. But capsize ? Everything that floats, or nearly everything, can be capsized. A ship that rolls easily is best, for she knows how to right herself. Of course, she is less comfortable for passengers than one who keeps an even keel in ordinary weathers...
...short cut to town, he wandered into a swamp, was bitten by a deadly stingray; into a smugglers' camp, was befriended ; into a native train guard, was jailed, far inland. He escaped from jail, hatless, bootless, penniless; cleaned up a barroom with his good right fist (the jacket design), set out to walk to Los Agostino, 110 miles away across the Sierras, to get news of his ship, of his lady. Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness. Over the hazardous ice-fields of the Sierras, where only a single man in 100 years had passed before...
...Straton replied, "Because I've met him". "And how can we meet him?" the questioner next demanded. "By repenting of your sins and accepting Jesus in your life", he answered: When asked for a more definite proof, he said, "Wherever there is harmony, there is design. And we may go a step further and say that wherever there is design, there is mind and behind mind there is personality. Therefore, God either is Mind or He has Mind...