Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first step on the straight & narrow path of "nonobjective" art. It was not always so delightful as it seemed at first. He often had the feeling that he "was throwing a message, sealed in a bottle, into the sea." But gradually he decided that the prime tenets of abstract design-simplicity, harmony, contrast-could be applied to almost anything...
...texture," and photography (which included the technique of making "photograms" without benefit of camera). His book, The New Vision* is a definitive work on the Bauhaus which, besides experimenting with geometric art, operated on the theory that artists should learn how to use 20th-century machines and materials to design useful and beautiful things for mass production...
...research fellow in the Psycho Acoustic Lab. Davis made painstaking tests to find out more about the workings of the partially deafened ear, and to measure the loudest sound which both normal and defened subjects could tolerate with comfort. Using conscientious objectors as guinea pigs, he was able to design the "theoretically perfect hearing...
...Newly formed Fuller Houses, Inc. (former name: Dymaxion Dwelling Machines, Inc.) hopes to license upwards of 70 manufacturers to produce 185,000 units a year. But the only licensee to date is Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp. It has produced only two test models, and price and final design are not yet fixed. Beech expects to be in production this spring...
...Union, beside Widener, stands Houghton Library, home of Harvard's rare books. Nearby is the President's House. Emerson, Sever, and Boylston Halls are used for classes, Robinson and Hunt Halls contain the School of Design. Other important buildings are Phillips Brooks House and Wadsworth House...