Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's design pictures a postman in commemoration of the Danish mail clerk who conceived the Christmas Seal idea in 1903. Each student will receive an envelope of seals November 27, payment for which will be on a voluntary basis...
Bachelor of Arts. Marsden was born Edmund Hartley, of English parents who had settled in Lewiston, Me. He studied at the Cleveland Art School, Manhattan's Chase School and National School of Design, contributed to Manhattan's historic 1913 Armory Show, where modern art first drew a big U.S. public, thanks to Marcel Duchamps' cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase. Hartley was also among the handful of modernists sponsored by famed Manhattan Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...
...will carry passengers at the fantastically low direct cost of 1? per mile; freight, in an all-cargo design, at 5? per ton-mile...
Based on B-29 design, the Stratocruiser's two-decked, double fuselage, looking in cross section like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge...
...library, not familiar to most Harvard students, is located on Western Avenue, behind the Business School and the athletic fields. Of simple design, the utilitarian structure, 88 by 64 feet, surrounds a stack of six levels. In front of the stack is a reading room which can accommodate 20 persons...