Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several days ago appeared The Log, comic magazine of the U. S. Naval Academy. It also is a parody on TIME even including the cover design, contents, style. Be sure to read it; it is interesting and cleverly written...
...carved Chippendale chair reproduced in antique pine, instead of the usual mahogany, and was bought because of its design, along with several other pieces. While I was in this exhibition booth, Queen Mary came in. The "pleased look" was not for me, but merely the manifestation of the royal goodwill towards all loyal Britishers...
Paralleling the lecture courses the student works on problems of design, in such subjects as thoroughfare systems, transit systems and railroads. The final half-year in design is devoted to the preparation of an ideal city, combining qualities studied in the school and located on a piece of ground which the student can visit...
...outstanding 'use-fault' of the design is its failure to declare the amount in plain characters...
Lest the Treasury Department consider Typographer Dwiggins merely a destructive critic he went further still. The back of the book is devoted to an explanation of what he would do about it with designs full size, printed in colors, for the currency of the mythical Republic of Antipodes: a five crown note; a page of postage stamps; a new cancellation stamp; a design for printed stamped envelopes; a metered mail stamp; a page of internal revenue stamps for tobacco and cigarets...