Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle 1600's there were counterfeiters abroad in the land providing just one more obstacle for the struggling colonists to overcome. Genuine coins which are to be seen include three of the "pine tree" variety and four "oak tree." There was a third type minted, a "willow tree" design, but there are none of this pattern in the Robinson display...
Progress and Advance are what U. S. railroads are now going in for heavily to resell the public train travel. The Century's two new cars marked Pullman Co.'s boldest innovation in design since the Pintsch gas era. An articulated unit made of alloy steel and aluminum, Advance & Progress together weigh no more than one standard Pullman...
This was revealed in a display of rare historical Harvard diplomas, including the earliest Harvard diploma in existence, the first engraved diploma, and the new Bruce Rogers design adopted in 1935 now on view in Widener Library as a part of the Tercentenary Exhibit...
Very similar in design to the new Greyhound busses are the East's first sleeper-busses, introduced on the Chicago-New York run last month by a new company named All American Bus Lines. The West Coast has had sleepers since 1928. Last year Greyhound extended its "nite-coach" service eastward as far as Kansas City (TIME, May 6, 1935). That the East was ripe for a similar facility was amply proven last week by the crowds which filled All American's sleepers to 95% of capacity...
Chicago's Northwestern University announced a course on "Scenic Design" by able, sleek-haired Harvardman Lee Simonson. Cinemactor Irving Pichel was invited to University of California at Los Angeles to teach "The Art of Acting." Biggest celebrity beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...