Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...design of any U. S. coin may be changed after 25 years. Because the buffalo-Indian head nickel will be 25 years old on February 21, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau last week announced that the Mint would coin no more after that date. A jury composed of Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross and three sculptors-Sidney Waugh, Albert Stewart and Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse...
Election Year, Republicans held their peace upon reflection: only overdue design change is in the penny, from which Republican Abraham Lincoln could have been removed...
Test. Having developed a method of measuring success after the ceremony, Professor Burgess proceeded to design an objective test to predict success or failure before marriage. This he did by examining significant facts in the background of the successful couples. Good and bad matrimonial risks, according to Professor Burgess...
...nearly a year the Fair's Board of Design has been holding inconclusive meetings with representatives of 16 artists' associations who thought something should be done for contemporary U. S. art at the Fair but had no very clear notion what. One reason they were up in the air was that no free ground, no building for an art exhibition had been allotted in the original plans. Artists with an exalted idea of what the World's Fair should be gradually began to get sore about this...
...were being made with the Metropolitan Museum (eight miles from the fair grounds) "and other like institutions" to hold exhibitions presumably like Chicago's. This message, which also appeared in the Post, was brought to the regular meeting between the artists' representatives and the Fair Board of Design. Mr. Manship's fellow artists were far from mollified, Mr. Whalen's plans for correlating art exhibitions on Manhattan Island were described as applesauce, and the artists voted to call on Mayor LaGuardia for help in getting an independent building...