Word: design
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston to fill roles, not subordinate but also not outstanding, in Anton Chekhov's "The Sea Gull." An odd assortment of characters, splendidly delineated, are mixed together, and allowed to react. The plot is thus simply a series of their chance encounters and repulsions, and seems devoid of design. The characters are all more or less frustrated, and the events produced out of them are all gloomy. But the play, though discursive and depressing, is packed with incidental dramatic values of great force, and contains several large chunks of fascinating dialogue...
...Atlantic Monthly article on public power programs, had "impugned the integrity of the Tennessee Valley Authority," that he had consulted with a former private utility executive, onetime Vice President George Hamilton of Insull Middle West Utilities, whose TVA contract stipulated that his services should be limited to design and construction problems, on questions of power policy, had once neglected to send a Board telegram to the President, and had meddled in the preparation of TVA lawsuits...
...style of the building is to be strictly classical, rectangular in design, and with four stories and Corinthian pilasters on the facade. The structure is to be built of granite, which was chosen for its extreme durability. Except for University Hall, this will be the only building in which red brick has not been the structural material...
Psychological principles must be applied to highway design in order to produce roads on which "the motorist will unconsciously react safely rather than unsafely," Charles M. Noble, Assistant Engineer of the Port of New York Authority told a group of graduate students at the Street Traffic Research Bureau yesterday...
This annual award to an alumnus of the Signet Socity who has made notable achievement in the arts was started last year when Nathaniel Choate '22 was asked to design the medal to be presented for the first time at last year's dinner. The resulting medal, two and three quarters inches in diameter, with the club membership medal design on one side and a shield bearing the name of the recipient on the other, is embossed in silver...