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Word: designate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graduate School of Design awarded 33 degrees, as follows: 20 Bachelors of Architecture; three Masters in Architecture; two Bachelors of City Planning; four Masters in City Planning; and four Bachelors of Landscape Architecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 829 February Degrees Given By University | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

...South, double muscadine was a bedspread design, named for the leaf of the scuppernong-wine grape. "Rench" was the word for rinse, and "wropping" was the method of braiding pickaninny pigtails. In Mississippi at least, a perjured slave was subject to "have both your ears nailed to the pillory, and cut off, and receive thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, well laid on, at the common whipping post." Then as now, a cockleburr was regarded as a bad thing to get under a saddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dash of King's Yellow | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...first secretary of the Hungarian embassy in Washington, declared that the main difference between the foreign policies of the U.S. and Russia lies in long range planning behind them. "Although certain Russian deeds taken separately appear to be nonsensical, at least they are part of a concrete, overall design...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nagy Claims Foreign Policy Lacks Planning | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

Last week Manhattan's dignified Cooper Union put on a show whose purpose was to track the cat through history with the help of sculpture, painting and design. It took more than 250 separate items (in an exhibit entitled "Nine Lives") to spread out the story: from the Egyptians' poker-faced cat-headed goddess Bast to the Chesapeake & Ohio's pampered, machine-age Chessie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nine Lives | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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