Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...road to the stony hole where Francis lived for a while at La Verna, and the Fascist Government -in the person of the Minister of Public Instruction, Signor Fedele -marched through the streets of Assisi. Donna Tittoni, wife of the president of the Senate, heads a committee to design simple fashions for women. Imported luxuries are forbidden. Passports will be refused, during the Franciscan year, for any travel for pleasure outside the country. The nation is asked to suffer cold that the consumption of coal may be limited. Just what these manifestations of national parsimony and party politics have...
...more effective than all is the design of sending the best class team against a Yale team. Thus class football is given a prominence and character worthy its name. Class crews have always furnished many men with good amusement and exercise. No reason exists why class football should not do the same. It is merely a question of method. And the method this year is, at least on paper, the right kind...
...work, beyond cavil, was more original than Architect McKim's. The latter, a conservative gentleman of the highest type, was in his decoration a trifle too simple, austere, for many people's taste; his design too was severely academical. But everyone agreed that Charles McKim was exactly the man the firm needed to balance the exciting gifts of Stanford White. No one, even with an unlimited fund to draw on, could decorate a house like Stanford White. There was a certain discreet voluptuousness in his patterning of rugs and hangings of sombre and yet burning tones...
...hour. The Weyman Body Co. of London and Paris will build a factory at Indianapolis, Ind. Last week at least one newspaper of every large U. S. city carried a full page advertisement, whose streamer headline reads: HOW THE VISION OF ONE MAN revolutionized the trend, of American Automobile Design...
...some measure the impression is justified. Eighteen months ago his Overland Six introduced European designs into the U. S. motor car field. Last year his Willys-Knight Great Six, with Knight sleeve valves, extended the fashion. At the turn of this year came his "70" Willys-Knight Six, somewhat lighter, but of the same general design. Then two months ago the Overland "Whippet," smallest of U. S. cars, came on the market. When Henry Ford reduced his prices a month ago, (TIME, June 28) no one of his executives could be induced to admit the obvious facts-that his sales...