Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brooches and things." Known to every Chicago gossip columnist was the historic Bonaparte-McCormick gilded-silver dinner service of 1,600 separate knives, forks, plates, dishes, platters, etc., weighing over 11,700 ounces. Made by Napoleon's favorite goldsmiths, Martin Guillaume Biennais and Jean Odiot, executed after the design of Architects Percier & Fontaine, the service was a wedding present from the Emperor to his sister Pauline on her marriage to Prince Gamillo Borghese. In 1892 the Borghese family sold it intact to Prince Baucina who sold it to Dealer Ercole Canessa who sold it to Mrs. McCormick...
Professor Samuel E. Morison '07, had advanced a plan to restore Harvard Hall to the exterior and interior design which it had when constructed in 1766. It is considered more practical to work on the Chapel, however, for Harvard Hall, besides being in continuous use for classes and lectures, is the larger building and would necessitate more work and expense...
...Near the death mask hung an architect's drawing of the Palace of the Soviets, most grandiose project to be attempted under Russia's present Second Five-Year Plan. Though young Hector 0. Hamilton, a British architect of East Orange, N. J., won $2,000 with his design for the Palace of Soviets Dictator Stalin later scrapped Mr. Hamilton's plan. It did not call for "the tallest building in the world," which is what Comrade Stalin wants. Pointing proudly last week to the new design, by Comrades Shchuko and Yofan, Stalin told Duranty that work...
...when the Public Works Administration allotted $500,000 for its development (TIME, Dec. 18). How his department would use the money, Director Vidal was not ready to say beyond repeating that the Government would not engage in manufacture. Best guess: a new company which would be formed especially to design and develop the "flivver" plane for mass production and in which the whole manufacturing industry would be represented...
...born in Bainbridge, Ga., 29 years ago and can still remember her Southern accent has aided Miriam Hopkins to impersonate unhappy samples of Southern womanhood. Since her last stage appearance, in The Affairs of Anatol, she has played in a dozen cinemas, notably The Smiling Lieutenant, Trouble in Paradise, Design for Living. Still rated by many as one of the cinema's most blood-curdling sound effects was her scream when, as Temple Drake, she was about to be raped in a barn stall...