Word: design
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propeller at front and rear end. Thus, if one motor ceases functioning, there still remains sufficient power to sustain flight, and there exists no dangerous tendency to slew the airplane violently around-as is the case when there are two motors, one on either wing. Nothing illustrates progress in design so much as comparison. The NC-4, which crossed the Atlantic five years ago, had the same power as the new U.S. Navy boat-four Liberty motors of 400 horsepower each. It weighed 4,000 Ib. more because it lacked metal construction in wings and hull. It had a maximum...
...National Academy of Design, Manhattan, opened its winter exhibit, awarded prizes. Many a struggling young artist awoke, dumbfounded, to find himself knighted with a check. Among the rewarded was a famed artist whose youth and struggles have long been at an end-Childe Hassam, famed New England impressionist. Yet he, too, was dumbfounded. Receiving the Altman Prize, carrying with it $1,000, for his portrait Miss Ingram, he is said to have expressed great surprise, remarking that he thought he had already won every prize possible for the Academy to give. Quite explicable is Mr. Hassam's amaze...
...were spoken of again?and for another reason. Their owner announced that since his father, Peter A. B. Widener, had suggested in his will that the collection he had begun should some day be given to a museum, he, Joseph E. Widener, was making plans to carry out the design. Where they would be given was not disclosed; but it was definitely stated that the Lady, the Gentleman, twelve more Rembrandts and other works of art, whose combined value exceeds $20,000,000, would be placed in a public museum either in Manhattan, Philadelphia or Washington...
...usual cover design is that of a woman in as little clothing as the law allows, so disporting herself as to show a maximum amount of nudity compatible with retention of second-class mailing privileges. Within the cover one finds the same theme played up. ... Nor is the male neglected. Macfadden himself in various stages of undress, and various other supermen with little on but a surcingle doubtless attract many quarters? from girls and women who feel the biologic urge...
...grows on one. It is perfectly true that the Yard has always been considered complete--sacred territory, free from the spade of the laborer and the hammer of the stonemason. But that does not mean that it need always remain so. The new buildings are well placed, and their design is in harmony with the best of the existing Colonial Yard architecture...