Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Human beings are just not built for flying. But since they insist on flying, they might as well have planes designed to carry them with the least discomfort and danger. So says Harvard's Physiologist Ross Armstrong McFarland. For ten years Dr. McFarland, a stubborn gadfly to the U.S. aviation industry, has scientifically studied the effect of plane design and operation on man, "perhaps the most unstable unit in the entire man-machine relationship." He has also flown a good many miles himself...
...group to receive degrees other than the graduating Seniors were the 429 students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, followed by a Business School Class of 361 members. The School of Engineering awarded 162 degrees, the Medical School 131, Law School 126, Public Health 85, Education 36, Design 30, Public Administration 29, Divinity 20, and Dental Medicine...
William Francis Gibbs '10, vice president of Gibbs and Cox Inc., naval architects, who was given the American Design award for making possible mass production of ships through standardization of parts. Doctor of Science. Citation: "Naval architect and marine engineer, in the forefront of his profession; the engineer of all manner of new craft for peace...
...Maurice Chevalier recently gladdened the hearts of local audiences in his post-war American revival tour. Now it's Ray Bolger's turn, and the results are equally pleasant--though it should be noted that "Three to Make Ready" is a one-man show in effect but not in design...
NACA says that its quiet prop is more efficient than faster, noisy propellers. (The plane equipped with it flew 5 m.p.h. faster.) NACA hopes that airplane manufacturers will adopt the design, and thus make small airfields acceptable in nicer and fussier neighborhoods. It even hints darkly of legislation making the quiet prop mandatory...