Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope that it is the Vertaplane. By flying as an airplane and landing as a windmill plane it would seem to combine the advantages of both." A group of Government scouts, newshawks and tradepaper reporters felicitated the inventor, expressed keen interest, hoped the ship's inventor could design it for greater payload. It is now designed as a two-place plane...
...Ryan used the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, issued last week. To implement his Plan he required a chart of the human mouth which all dentists in the U. S. might understand. None of the 38 dental schools of this country had such a chart. So Dr. Ryan designed his own. On a grey background the 32 teeth are shown 1) as they look from the front, with their roots outlined, 2) as they look from the inside of the mouth. On that design dentist or layman may clearly mark every peculiarity, filling, inlay, pivot tooth, bridge or plate...
...trustees first awarded the commission to Yugoslavian Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, withdrew it when local patriots and Federal art officials protested that a U. S. sculptor should have the job. Obligingly the trustees fixed on Denver's own Maillol-trained Sculptor Arnold Ronnebeck. But when Ronne-beck's design of a female figure cradling a covered wagon in one arm came before the Municipal Art Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick the winner. Last year Sterne gave...
Last week the mayor's two appointees voted "aye" to the Ronnebeck design, carried it over another member's silence and Miss Evans' "no." Next day a spokes-man for Denver's women's clubs snorted that they had been "basely betrayed." Commissioner Evans resigned. Said she: "Mr. Ronnebeck's conception of Rising City ... is childish. . . . The sculptural forms seem to be commonplace. . . . To me it is clear that the Commission was packed...
Last February the Treasury Department announced a national competition for a 24-ft. mural for the Department of the Interior's new auditorium. The competition closed April 30 with 310 entries. The judges conferred briefly, then voted unanimously for one design...