Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shell which was completed during vacation. It will be several days before the boat has been broken in and the stiffness and newness worked out of her sufficiently to tell whether she will make a good shell or not, but every effort has been made to improve the design over that of recent models and to insure the most careful attention to materials and workmanship...
...destroys three men in the first two acts. At the end when she is murdered and horribly mutilated, the orchestra emits one terrifying shriek. Then only did Bostonians sit up in their seats. For although Berg again "uses the twelve-tone scale, he weaves it into a crafty harmonic design, subjects it to his moods which are for the most part restrained...
...June 1. National Houses, Inc., a competitor, announced that it hoped to have 10,000 prefabricated houses to sell during the next twelvemonth. Though it will be months, perhaps years, before U. S. travelers begin to see prefabricated houses springing up in any numbers along the roadsides, the design and equipment of such houses was by last week sufficiently complete to give the public some idea of what its grandchildren may live...
Puffing nervously at a thin cigar, vigorous, talkative Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee) strode about the galleries of the National Academy of Design, of which he is president, last week on the Academy's 110th varnishing day. Buttonholing critics and newshawks he kept insisting...
Five days before the opening of the National Academy of Design's noth annual exhibition President Jonas Lie gave an elaborately rehearsed interview over a coast-to-coast network, in which he announced the winners of the $4,400 worth of assorted prizes that the N. A. has assembled through the years. Nobody could see the pictures last week, but from the names and reputations of the winners all the U. S. art world knew that the long-awaited rejuvenation of the National Academy was under way. Except for elderly, conservative Frederick Judd Waugh of Provincetown, Mass...