Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Progressive architects regard the capital of the U. S. A. as a gleaming shirt front, dignified but stuffed. During its last great construction years the design of Government buildings was a monopoly of a few urbane neoclassicists, notably the late Cass Gilbert (Supreme Court, U. S. Chamber of Commerce) and the late John Russell Pope (Archives Building, National [Mellon] Gallery). Last week an open architectural competition brought forth the first modern design ever chosen for a national building in Washington. Its subject : a new Smithsonian Gallery...
Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park & Planning Commission. Appointed professional adviser was liberal Dean Joseph Hudnut of the Harvard School of Design. Granted an appropriation of $40,000 and all aglow with its opportunity, the Commission made no bones about what was required: a museum of modern art for Washington...
When he was not flying the mail he was instructing students. He seemed never to tire of the air. On the ground he studied airplane and engine design, or poked around the flying field shops. He ate prodigiously (as he still does) and had a prodigious love for practical jokes (as he still does). For his practical jokes, which were often rough, occasionally cruel, he got many a rough return from other fliers, but was never discouraged...
...Harvard Engineering Camp on the shore of Squam Lake, New Hampshire, will open this year on Saturday, June 24, and will continue for eight weeks, it was announced last week. At the suggestion of the Graduate School of Design, a course on Statistics and Resistance of Materials will be given, in addition to the regular program of Engineering Sciences 4; Plane Surveying. Curves, and Earthwork. No student is permitted to take more than one course at the camp...
Sitting at home, Glenn Martin goes over airplane plans, thinks about plant expansions, reads technical papers on aircraft design in which he tries to keep up in his spare time. He seldom goes out, dislikes social functions, steers clear of parties and tries to keep at work. When he feels overworked, which sometimes happens after a hard day, he takes a turn around the block and goes...