Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designer and builder of fortifications, roads, and bridges that facilitated the movement of troops, many centuries age, was called a military engineer. By contrast, the designer, and builder of civil works, such as highways, canals, bridges, and buildings to be used in the peaceful development of a country was called a "civil engineer." Although, strictly speaking, all engineers not engaged in military works are civil engineers, the expansion and diversification of engineering associated with the last century have necessarily restricted the application of the term civil engineering to include such activities as the design and construction of public works, large...
...mine shaft which slopes down at a 34° angle to a vertical depth of 1,600 feet. Volney C. Wilson, research assistant of the University of Chicago's famed Arthur Holly Compton, worked for three months in the shaft with a cosmic ray recorder of his own design, containing four ionization tubes. These were arranged in line so as to exclude cosmic rays shooting down the open shaft, to catch only rays boring vertically through the rock. From the surface to 1,600 feet Mr. Wilson took measurements at 39 stations. The intensity diminished steadily as he descended...
...thinking, should look like the sea," says Artist Waugh. "Personally, my own liking is for purely decorative design, running into the abstract. I claim painting has qualities like music, if one goes after them-a thing in itself, not in existence before it is painted into existence...
...Architectural School students, Joseph P. Richardson '35, and Arthur Malsin, Yale '35, have been chosen as co-winners of the annual architectural contest in which students at M.I.T., the Boston Architectural Club, and Harvard compete, Joseph Hudnut, Dean of the Faculty of Design, announced Saturday. Both are pupils of Walter F. Bogner, associate professor of Architecture...
...Spirit of Modern Architecture" was the subject of a talk by Joseph Hudnut, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, given last night over short-wave radio station WIXAL...