Word: design
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since Daimler invented the internal combustion engine and adapted it to personalized transportation back in 1887, there has been no essential change in automobile design. People still use twice as much space on the road as the car requires, because today's operator cannot see how much room he needs . . . [He] skids off the road in his front-end-heavy blunderbus and involuntarily kills and maims more than a million people inside or outside...
...pilot bed, an improvement on early German design, is made of strong nylon mesh hung between side boards curved to fit the pilot's body. The mesh can be loosened to make room for broad hips, and a rounded belly (which are among the occupational hazards of airmen). The pilot's jaw rests on a padded adjustable shelf. A counter-weighted forehead strap takes the strain off his neck. He steers the plane by resting his forearms in movable "pans" with hand grips for stick, throttle, etc., at their forward ends. His feet work the rudder, brakes...
...exhibitions Kuhn has organized concerns the methods and achievements of the Bauhaus, a German school of design founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Gropius is at present a professor of Architecture at Harvard and was one of the designers of the projected Graduate Center...
...school was a strong influence on industrial design, architecture, and methods of art instruction until the Hitler regime suppressed it in 1933, Kuhn explained. A large model of the school was borrowed from the Museum of Modern...
...Open Champion Ben Hogan was Sticking to his grand design (TIME, Jan. 10). The other pros could make the full winter circuit; "Little Ice Water" would take what he could get in four tournaments, then rest until spring...