Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years of experiment Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, now the world famed physicist of Chicago University, has little by little whittled away the inaccuracies surrounding the calculated speed of light. In 1926, he set up two reflecting mirrors of his own design on Mount Wilson and San Antonio Peak near Pasadena, Calif. The U. S. Geodetic Survey measured the distance between his two instruments, about 22 miles, and assured him that its figure was accurate within one-third of an inch. Playing light from mirror, he timed the 44-mile round trip, calculated the speed of light...
...great Ford plants are Albert Kahn's work. So are the buildings whence come Packards, whence Hudsons. For his design of Detroit's Fisher Building he was awarded the silver medal of the Architectural League. From princely fees he gives to charity a princely $75,000 a year...
...canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric woven?" About all that the tailor-editor-art critic approved was Artist Oswald Birley's portrait of George V in black jacket, double-breasted fawn waistcoat, grey striped...
...large well-sheltered garden and orchard for students addicted to planting; an ergasterium for mechanical fancies; and a laboratory chemical for those philosophers, that by their senses would culture their understandings, are in our design, for the students to spend their times of recreation in them; for, readings on notions only are but husky provender...
Classic in design, the building rose there, squarely blocking the view between the White House and the Capitol along Pennsylvania Avenue...