Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unique design features will make Lamont quite different from Widener, Metcalf revealed. For example, the main reading room has alcoves all around the walls, each equipped with a desk and chair. All in all, there are 250 such alcoves in the building...
...like to see: "At first the myriad of detail demanded so much attention I had to try not to look at things. There was, and still is, no ugliness in things that can be seen. Even a wad of paper, wet and soggy in a dirty gutter, contains design and color that are not unpleasant to look upon. All things are beautiful . . . and I have found life is beautiful, too . . . Thanks to my good vision, we face a future of independent security here on our Pennsylvania dairy farm...
...offspring, valued at some $200,000. One of his offspring, Cavalier's Swanky Hughina, set a formidable record for Ayrshires by producing 18,817 Ibs. of milk and 656 Ibs. of butterfat in a year. Two others, Cavalier's Swanky Gold and Cavalier's Swanky Design, would have been bull champions had it not been for Swanky Dan; when Swanky Dan won the Grand Championship at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa last year, they followed him in second and third places. He won the Grand Championship again this year; two heifers he sired...
Samuel Cooper once said, "Any man who claims to be a Bostonian and can't tell what the Faneuil Hall weather-vane is, must be an impostor." Faneuil Hall later became known as "the grasshopper market," but no one was quite sure why Shem Drowne had chosen that particular design. The story goes, however, that one day in his youth Shem struck up a conversation with a boy who was chasing a grasshopper. The boy took him home for dinner, and later Shem was adopted by the boy's parents. Years later, remembering the grasshopper that had brought about...
...goldsmith's son, Maldarelli was apprenticed at 17 to a jeweler. He earned a fair living as a jewelry designer, studied sculpture at night-first at Cooper Union, then at the National Academy of Design, and finally for seven years at the Beaux Arts. Now he is 56, and has his own students at Columbia University...