Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
When the Chicago World's Fair opens in 1933 it will disclose a synthetic metropolis eight square miles in area, as colorful as the vanished palaces of Carthage, as modern in design as a straight-eight motor. These qualities are assured by a commission of eight architects who long ago for sook archaeology to create skyscrapers: Harvey Wiley Corbett (Chairman), Ralph T. Walker and Raymond M. Hood, of Manhattan; John A. Holabird, Edward H. Bennett and Daniel H. Burnham of Chica go; Arthur Brown Jr., of San Francisco; Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia...
From a Los Angeles little theatre, Geddes later vaulted into important and lucrative stage design. He now has a studio-home in one of the many brownstone houses in Manhattan's Murray Hill residential district. There some 24 subalterns assist him, a blonde little Leonardo, in his multifarious labors...
...great designer of radial air-cooled engines is Charles L. Lawrence, now president of Wright Aeronautical Corp. There are no patents on the basic design, so more than a dozen U. S. motormakers are producing them. Most famed are the Wright Whirlwind* and Cyclone, Pratt & Whitney Wasp and Hornet, Warner Scarab...
...emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched in a diaper pattern. The design of the figures is admirably worked out in a limited range of colors...