Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty passed a morning last week in superintending the design of a nursery and a cupboard. The "nursery"-a suite of rooms equipped with every appliance for infant culture-will be built to adjoin Her Majesty's own apartments in Buckingham Palace. The cupboard, an ingenious toy stable, will be copied, with a few improvements, after that which houses the toys of Princess Mary's two infant sons, at Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. "Does Her Majesty expect an infant?" queried humble newsgatherers. "Her Majesty," retorted lofty courtiers, "will entertain at Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME...
...Hoax," purporting to tell the tale of an enterprising newspaper's fictitious account of a balloon crossing the Atlantic. Poe was a dreamer; he wrote his little fancy for certainly no more sordid motive than profit. Today's dreamers spoof with "The Spokesman Hoax," with the ignoble design of evading responsibility- nothing more. Gentlemen breakfast, then naturally desire to know what the Chief Executive thinks, for example, about increasing, by Congressional legislation, acreage on Philippine rubber plantations. What do gentlemen read?". . . The Spokesman for the President indicated that the Administration feels favorably inclined toward rubber projects" (TIME...
...long, loose, open sleeves, a gathered yolk at the neck, and drops to the knees like the skin of a ribless umbrella. Stole. A narrow strip of embroidered work nine or ten feet long and about three inches wide. A stole supposedly tallies with its alb in design and coloring. The Bishop of London wears his stole between his alb and his tunicle. The spangles across his chest supply the illusion of the cross. It signifies a yoke. In the Eastern Church instead of being a strip, the stole is a square with a hole for the head slit...
...Lords and Commons, and his employment of its surplus profit of ?150,000 to found the present Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. Throughout his life he exhibited a passion for developing British industry which vented itself even upon such details as persuading individual crockery makers to improve the design of their slop-jars. The meeting progressed to a climax in which Lord Balfour thanked Edward of Wales for presiding. Pompously the session adjourned into a procession through the city. Behind, at the old Sheldonian, a leering-visaged ghost lurked, perhaps, the ghost of Benjamin Disraeli, near-supplanter of "Dear...
...Ultimate purpose: to connect the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland by a trans-Abyssinian railway tapping much fertile country which might thus be brought under Italian dominance. fEventual design: to construct certain dams and waterworks among the Abyssinian headwaters of the Nile with intent to foster cotton growing in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The British dams would inundate numerous shrines held sacred by certain Abyssinian religious cults...