Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Acting Supervising Architect, Mr. Wetmore exerted practically no influence in the design of Federal buildings. He boasts that he never accepted so much as a cigar (and he is passionately addicted to them) from a contractor or competing architect. "Recently," he rumbled, "I had to send back a gallon can of New Orleans molasses that was a gift from a builder. Good molasses...
News not of United's choice or making was the suit filed against it last week by one George A. Hughes of Lincoln, Neb. for alleged infringement of his patent on dihedral (up-tilted) wing design. To prove that he invented flying principles used by United, Plaintiff Hughes offered to have onetime Colorado cowboys testify they amused themselves in the 1890's by plugging Hughes's flying models full of holes with six-shooters...
...Rhine had what he considered the ideally simple tool?a set of five designs printed on cards: a circle, a star, a plus sign, a rectangle, a band of three wavy lines. He started experiments with packs of 25 cards, five cards of each design. For subjects he used mostly students, some of them graduate assistants in his department. To visitors the procedure seemed like a quiet parlor game...
...tests for clairvoyance, the subject was required at first to name the design on each card as it was removed, face down, from the pack. Later he was asked to name the order of the pack as it lay untouched on a table. In the tests for telepathy he was required to guess the card visualized in the mind of a telepathic agent. Since each guess represented a choice of one design among five, the average expectation under the laws of chance would be five hits in a run of 25 cards. At first Dr. Rhine's subjects were close...
...might go on thus for pages, describing the old Chapel, but the above brief description may show in a small way that this building was not "Just another old building" with an interesting and very checkered career. Architecturally, it was a masterpiece of Georgian design, and to my mind, one of the best proportioned, and one of the most interesting buildings of the Colonial Period now standing in this country...