Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, approximately one-third of the audience can see the stage none too well. Last week in Musical America an article by Editor Deems Taylor describing Joseph Urban's design for the new Metropolitan Opera House to be situated on West 57th St., Manhattan, promised that each and every operagoer could see the stage...
...above is a reproduction of the bookplate which marks the volumes already purchased from the income of the fund. The design was drawn by S. L. Smith of Boston...
...publication of his newest book, The Key to Ulysses. Also, he is editing and interpreting Robert Burton's Anatomy of Mel- ancholy. ?Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), was a painter whose art was inspired by the primitive in nature, modified by a theory of sym- bolism in form, color, design. He declared that only in Tahiti, whither he retired, could he find proper stimulation for his work. His enthusiasm for the picturesque South Seas was shared by his good friend, Robert Louis Stevenson...
...police who later raided the so-called Peerless Blade Corporation's factory in Irvington, found the Gillette Co.'s smallest, most serious legend had indeed been defied, grossly. In the Peerless factory they found many hundreds of thousands of counterfeit safety razor blades, modeled on the Gillette design, ready to be wrapped in tasteful green wrappers with the handsome portrait and the two legends. At other hiding places, raiders seized more of the imitations; two million blades in all, which had cost perhaps $10,000 to manufacture out of cheap metal, which would have retailed as genuine Gillette...
Surgeon Pitkin's device, which was described technically in the July number of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, consists of a small pneumatic hammer originally designed by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. to grave carvings and letterings on stone and to do delicate riveting. Its over-all length is eight inches, its net weight three and a half pounds. It delivers 3,800 blows a minute, each blow a light tap. But the sum of their rapid succession, when applied to the surgeon's bone-cutting chisel or osteotome, carves away bone precisely to the surgeon's design...