Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grand Rapids, Andover, Mass, and Baltimore. Local decorators in each city will design new interiors to go with several of the wallpapers, and possibly local painters will be tempted to try their hands at an art form as big as a room...
...land that separates "pure" art (the kind that comes in frames) from applied art. "You must have a sponsor, just as in the Renaissance, only nowadays it's a company instead of a duke. I'm lucky to have a manufacturer [Katzenbach & Warren, Inc.] who lets me design pretty much as I please. And I'm not dependent on inspiration. I'm dependent on what I wish to do. This does not mean I work without inspiration-I just don't wait for it; I work, and sometimes it comes...
Another system would require a plane of odd design, putting the cockpit in the rear just ahead of the tail surfaces (see drawing). When the pilot wanted to bail out, he would detach the whole tail-and-cockpit. The plane would fly on, while the tail cone pulled a parachute from behind the pilot's seat. When it had slowed the cockpit to a safe speed, the pilot could bail out with his own parachute...
After trying their hand at improving everything from paper clips to superliners, U.S. industrial designers finally got around to their fellow beings. At a Manhattan meeting of the Society of Industrial Designers last week, they held a contest to design a "functional man," or, as they put it, "an animal which would be a better solution to the very environmental problems which man has created...
...School backed Truman over Dewey by a 68 to 54 vote, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences also endorsed the President, 57 to 40. Assorted ballots from the Divinity School, the School of Design, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Administration, and the School of Education also gave Truman an edge...