Word: design
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to thank you on behalf of the Moslems interested in this scheme for the sympathetic notice of it in your columns. I ask your indulgence, however, in the interests of accuracy, to publish the fact that though originally a design of the Mosque was prepared by Sir Brumwell Thomas, yet that is not the design which is to be adopted when the building of the Mosque commences. Apart from other things, that design was much too ambitious and expensive for the funds at the disposal of the Nizamiah Mosque Trust and has had to be given up. The present...
...Falange Española, whose members wear blue shirts embroidered with a design of five red arrows. They are outright Fascists and want no king...
...practice in Manhattan after 1903, Architect Pope worked hard and resourcefully, designed show houses for wealthy people like Ogden Mills. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. In 1916 he won the year's award of the Architectural League with his design for the $2,000,000 Scottish Rite Temple in Washington, a massive affair of marble and bronze. In the one architectural movement of his time that was distinctly American-skyscraper building- John Russell Pope took little interest. Neither was he affected by the style variously called Functionalism, Modernism. Internationalism, whose father was Frank Lloyd Wright, whose grandfather was Louis Sullivan...
...changing the design of its propellers (deepening the pitch and adding a fourth blade), the S. S. Normandie last month recaptured the Atlantic speed record (TIME, Aug. 16). Even more striking are the results that have been attained in the last four years by changing the design of airplane propellers. Until 1933 there had been only two major improvements in the paper airscrew invented by Leonardo da Vinci some 450 years before to pull toy helicopters to the ceiling of his study. One was the Wright Brothers' development of a two-bladed '"prop" of laminated wood, the other...
Producer Samuel (''The Touch") Goldwyn, for all Hollywood's physical resources and the more elastic dimensions of the screen, has not improved on the single set Designer Geddes squeezed into the little old Belasco Theatre stage, but Playwright Lillian Hellman's (The Children's Hour) cinema version enlarges the play's design, intensifies its mood, sharpens its implications. And Producer Goldwyn was smart enough to import the Geddes-Kingsley gang en masse, the whole dirty, ruthless, gay, heroic, nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall...