Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photograph of the Big Three at Teheran (TIME, Dec. 13) is a work of art. . . . Whether by design or by accident, the respective chairs occupied and the attitudes assumed by Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt, and Premier Stalin speak volumes...
Witness Mr. Churchill slouched comfortably in a well-stuffed piece, apparently of period design, a piece that typifies a bygone era. . . . Yet Mr. Churchill does not seem to reflect its attributes. Rather, his pensive and somewhat uncomfortable expression would indicate his realization that the elegance that was England is no more, that she will no longer regally dominate the bulk of the world's thought and the world's commerce...
Display screens describing the British Commonwealth of Nations and their efforts in the war have been received by the Graduate School of Design and are being displayed in Robinson Hall during December...
Known only as Maritime Commission design CI-M-AVI, these pocket-size ships can enter bomb-destroyed ports blocked to larger ships, or deliver relief cargoes at smaller ports. Later, as part of a merchant fleet top-heavy with plodding 10,000-ton Liberty ships, they will be useful for U.S. coastal service and offshore trading in the Caribbean...
...Medici, lavish ruler of Florence. But Leonardo served himself miserably: he was ridden by a perfectionism which prevented him from finishing a work. Even the patient Lorenzo finally let his artist go-to Milan, where he served the great Duke Ludovico Sforza. There Leonardo ranged through "interior decoration, gadget design, city planning, court painting and sculpture. His painter's mind was increasingly and almost ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science. His very painting was a scientific search-the plants and rocks in the background of the Portrait...