Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hobart Upjohn, taking heed from his brothers, for years refused to be an architect, practiced as a civil engineer. In 1902 a letter intended for his father reached him, asking him to design a church for Watertown, N. Y. Before Hobart Upjohn could explain the mistake, he found himself awarded the contract. Watertown's vestry was quite satisfied when the church was finished, and in 1905 Hobart Upjohn found himself head of the House of Upjohn...
...stool, ash trays, sets of drawing instruments and water colors. Just outside stood four army cots. Then for three successive weekends the four contestants were shut in these closets for 36 hours straight, given three successive problems to work out. Food and sleep were optional. First problem was to design a model dairy. Second was an industrial arts museum. The third test called for the interior of an opera house...
Prizewinner Heffernan, attacking the last assignment, decided that the basic problem about an opera house is how to get out. His design, notably similar to Radio City Music Hall with its paraboloid acoustic ceiling, was so plentifully endowed with exits that any spectator could leave in any direction at any time...
...Ethics of the A. M. A. Those documents contain 146 rules which place the practice of medicine in the U. S. under a closed professional dome which doctors want their patients to believe is the most beautiful, unselfish, beneficent thing on earth.† Any physician who by accident or design happens to get into the lay spotlight runs a serious risk of being tossed out of Organized Medicine. Chief catapult is Chapter III, Article I, Section 4, of the Principles of Medical Ethics, which pertains to "advertising" and reads in part: ". . . It is equally unprofessional to procure patients ... by furnishing...
...problem: Select equipment for the recovery of acetone from a mixture of acetone and air by means of an absorption tower, using water as the absorbent. Students were obliged to deduce a plant of the most economical type and to calculate its annual operating cost. They also had to design certain auxiliaries, such as a heat exchanger, a condenser, and a still boiler, and to figure the most economical way of running the whole system...