Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all the comings & goings of other departments to meet changing times, TIME's basic departments have remained to stand the test of 23 years of reading as a distinctive, original, logical method of presenting the week's news. We think it is the best news design yet produced to implement our original, expressed desire: to make the news make sense...
...Ickes replied acidly: "I assure you that I have had no secret design . . . to hold on to any other office under your jurisdiction...
During the war, many of its members served with the Tenth Mountain Division, which spearheaded the final phase of the Italian campaign after its capture of Mount Belvedere. Others served in the Navy and Air Corps, and many worked in secret research projects organized to design special winter equipment for the Quartermaster Corps...
...anonymous agent, Moholy has plenty of theories about art. Says he: "I don't like the word beauty. It's a depressing word. Utility and emotion and satisfaction, those are more important words. Those are the things design should give. Decisions should be made on the basis of refined, not brute, emotions. Art is the best education to refine emotions...
Presumably this was meant to imply that if the building had been more modern the League might never have foundered. Four arch-conservative architects had won the Geneva competition, pooled their resources to design the cumbersomely classic stone pile which was finally finished in 1938-when there was no longer much use for it. But the "rightful winners," according to the Museum, were Frenchmen Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who had proposed a terraced glass-and-concrete palace in the strictest "functional" tradition. This time, urged the Museum, the UNO planners should "learn from Geneva and select an international jury...