Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received, through the generosity of Samuel Sachs, the Lehrs collection of reproductions numbering over 2,700 pieces. It consists of photographs and photo-mechanical reproductions chiefly of prints, but also of paintings, drawings, wood-carvings, and other objects by the authors of prints, and objects related to prints in design...
...subject for the contest was "A War Memorial and Its Setting". The rules for the competition required that the memorial be designed for a New England city of a population of 200,000. The design was to be primarily commemorative, but was expected to be useful as well...
...winning drawings were all unique in the history of the competition. The design that took second place was a marble shaft that had a perpetual fire burning in it, which was supposed to be placed at the top of memorial and set full ablaze on Armistice...
...winning drawing was also a design of a marble shaft, located on the edge of a sharp cliff, with its foundation sunk to the bottom of the cliff...
...competition is held annually, and is conducted by the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design as a national problem contest...