Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Arthur Chevrolet, 61, last of the three Swiss brothers who made auto history in design, production and on the speedways; by his own hand (hanging); in Slidell, La. In 1909 Arthur became Motor-magnate William C. Durant's private chauffeur. Later he and Brothers Louis and Gaston, in partnership with Durant, formed the Chevrolet Motor Co., sold out four years later, just missed becoming motormillionaires...
...developed new rules: 1) distorting and arbitrarily recoloring nature for emotional impact (expressionism); 2) chopping nature into small cubes in order to get a good look at it from every angle (cubism); 3) excluding recognizable nature altogether, so that familiar associations would not obscure the geometric interest of the design (abstractionism...
School of Design...
...sightseers. Soon the Bull boys were wearing a special patch on their lower right sleeves-a coat of arms featuring the Stars & Stripes, the Union Jack, the Cambridge Lions, the American Eagle and the Bull of Bull College. Master Sergeant Al Kohler, an inveterate doodler, hit on the design...
Connolly knew that sooner or later, by accident or design, most highbrow "little mags" duck down some intellectual by path.* At its end is a trap: mixed up in parlor politics, or tripped up by literary politics, they spend their days tootling for whatever cause they are stuck with. To save his long-haired baby from that fate, Connolly kept its own horizon wide. He refused to embrace - or to exclude - any cultural point of view, held to a catholic determination to work both sides of civilization's broad thoroughfares...