Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hospitalized, Major Hill died without regaining consciousness; the others, including Heroes Harman & Giovannoli, were expected to recover. The plane, which cost Boeing some $500,000 to develop and had only the day before received its design patent, was a total loss...
Front-wheel drive is no novelty. Cords with forward driving axles were introduced in 1929, discontinued in 1932. What made the new Cord exciting was that it incorporated front-wheel drive in a completely new design. The body is low and sleek with a rounded rectangular one-piece hood that opens from the front and is banded with vane-like "Venetian" (blind) louvers. Water and oil caps are under a cowl lid on the right, matching a cowl ventilator on the left. Front lights are retractable like an airplane's landing gear, disappearing into the fenders when little cranks...
...design has been perpared by Mr. Henry R. Shepley, of the from of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, architects, of Boston, with an inscription composed by members of the Committee. It is simple and dignified, as the subject requires...
...Harvard and had many friends and admirers among Harvard men, it is hoped that subscriptions to the modest fund necessary to complete the Memorial will be offered promptly. Mr. Walter B. Briggs of the Widener Library has kindly consented to receive subscriptions and to exhibit Mr. Shepley's beautiful design for the commemorative tablet...
...enameled Steigel glass forms an interesting part of the old stuff. The designer realized the limitations of his medium and did not try to make the design anything more than decorative...