Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was high praise indeed. The loom in which Joseph Marie Jacquard made practical the ideas of several 18th Century inventors was declared public property in France in 1806, and Jacquard was rewarded with royalties, a pension, a statue. In making fabrics with woven-in designs, it is required that every time a thread of weft is passed across the warp, certain needles be lifted from the row, corresponding to the cross-section of the design at that point. Jacquard solved this with a series of perforated cards permitting some needles to pass through the holes and stopping others. Jacquard...
Setting up the control for a 10-in. design by the Lefier method costs about $5. The design is laid down with insulating paint on a sheet of copper. An electric contact is swept back & forth across the sheet. Through the sheet and the contact a weak electric current is passed. Wherever the contact is separated from the copper by the insulated design the current is broken. This intermittent current is sent to an amplifier, relayed thence to a line of electromagnets, each of which controls a needle in the loom. Thus, for every cross-section of the design...
Barred from last week's exhibition because of his amateur standing was the winner of the Yale Club's amateur art show last winter. To judge it a distinguished jury had been chosen: President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design, Dean Everett V. Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Portraitist Augustus Vincent Tack. Carefully they inspected the work of Yale's amateur painters, awarded first prize to an impressionistic watercolor sketch of a child's head...
With the fattest melon to cut in many a year, the National Academy of Design opened its 111th exhibition in Manhattan last week, showed 530 paintings, prints and pieces of sculpture, awarded $4,250 in prizes to 15 different artists...
...Last week for the first time man knew the point at which this progression must stop. In Manhattan Dr. George William Lewis, research director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, demonstrated to the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences that the highest speed airplanes can attain with present wing design is 575 m.p.h...