Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern architecture in Europe has reached a definition of style through the work of three leaders, Le Corbusiner in Paris, Ouid in Rotterdam, and Mies Van der Rohe in Berlin. In the last decade their style has become international. The design depends principally upon the function which the building is created to serve, with no consideration for the traditional principles of symmetry. The second feature is that modern architecture employs almost exclusively the new building materials, concrete, glass, and steel. The beauty of the style rests in the free composition of volumes and surfaces; the adjustment of such elements...
...wheel turned up his design. Ardent disciples of what is called the International Style sniffed at drawings of his design, called it "fake modernism." But the Hamilton design by no means represents what the completed palace will actually look like. Two Russians, B. M. Yofan and I. V. Zholtovsky, share first prize with Mr. Hamilton. Second prize went to the U. S. firm of Kastnor & Storonoff, both members of which have already won awards in a Soviet architectural competition. The Moscow idea is that all these men. and possibly 20 or 30 of the other competitors, will assemble in Moscow...
...order to qualify for a bequest of $4,000,000 given to the University last May by George Artemas Ward, great grandson of the Revolutionary general. Leonard Crunell, Chicago sculptor, has been commissioned to design and execute a statue of the first Artemas Ward to be placed in a new circle at the junction of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues in Washington, D.C. The terms of the bequest provide that after the University has fittingly honored the great general by erecting memorials, and maintaining the old Ward-homestead which is located in Shrewsbury, where the general lived and died, the remaining...
...present spurious coins are of such perfect impressions that identification by the design is impossible for the layman. Due to lead content, however, their color tends to be darker than that of the true tokens and they can be cut more easily with a pen-knife. Anyone attempting to pass a counterfeit coin is liable to immediate arrest...
...purifying gold, etching metals. As an antiseptic it is useful but dangerous. Hence the Pharmacopoeia commands that tablets of bichloride of mercury intended for antiseptic use be "of an angular shape, not discoid [shape of many medicinal tablets], each having the word 'POISON' and the skull & crossbones design distinctly stamped upon it. . . . The tablets are to be colored blue . . . are to be dispensed in securely stoppered glass containers on the exterior of which is placed a red label bearing the word 'POISON'. . . ." No other drug in the entire Pharmacopoeia need be colored or shaped so distinctively...