Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potter Poor justifies his exacting process by showing that it necessitates brisk, simple design−''the subordination of technique"−and produces "depth and brilliance of color." The resulting ornaments−leaves, flowers, nude figures, abstract patterns−are so sketchy that the temptation is to call them naive. They are the simplification of form to only the essential contours, graceful and spontaneous. They are not precise and intricate geometry...
Great improvements have been made in certain classes of insulating materials during the past few years. As a result, it has been possible to design overhead transmission lines to operate at 220,000 volts. Transformers are built to operate up to 500,000 volts. Furthermore, when lines, transformers, and generators, or switches and similar apparatus are put into service, it is almost safe to predict that they will operate indefinitely without electrical break-down, unless the insulation is damaged by some abnormal electrical surge such as lightning strokes, or high voltages induced in the system by short circuits, or arcing...
...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
...telegram from Mr. Green yesterday declared that the tablet is to be in the form of a bas-relief and is to be done by J. A. Coletti '24. The design has not yet been finished, but it is hoped to have the plaque ready for unveiling by Commencement...
After much secret and uncertain picking up and putting down, Herbert Hoover fitted ten pegs into ten holes and finally made up his Cabinet. It had been a brain-bullying task and the result, somehow, failed to produce the striking design of supermen and specialists which Mr. Hoover-and the U. S.-had hoped for last November. He had had a surplus of little pegs that would have fallen through the holes, whereas big pegs of individual shapes refused to fit in, even when pushed. But a survey of his handiwork at least brought the new President the consoling knowledge...