Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infertility is far commoner than is generally supposed. From 1910 to 1930, whether by accident or design, 17% of native white U.S. marriages were childless, 15% of pregnancies resulted in abortions and miscarriages, 5% to 8% of marriages resulted in only one child. Hotchkiss reports that, among a group of married women 20 to 29 years old who used no contraceptives, only one intercourse in 202 resulted in pregnancy. Infertility is by no means an exclusive matter of stopped-up tubes, venereal disease, or poor sexual development. Some other causes: diet low in vitamins or protein, poor absorption of food...
...design of the calendar calls for a separate page for each month, containing a large drawing of a College building, a smaller sketch of the structure as it was originally built, or of the building razed to make way for the present edifice, and an explanatory text about the etchings. The cover of the calendar will be the famous Burgess view of Harvard...
...Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design will have displayed, in the central exhibition room of Robinson Hall drawings and model architectural designs executed by students during the academic year...
...some notable event of the past papal year. Reason: The medal approved by Pius XII several months ago showed the Pope standing in an attitude of prayer amid the ruins caused by the first U.S. bombing of Rome last July. The old medal will be melted down, a new design drawn. Rumored theme: the Pope depicted as the protector and savior of Rome...
Fresno's functional city hall is handsome, economical, moderately experimental in plan and design. It is a low (two-story), flat-roofed structure, surfaced with unpainted red brick, trimmed with stainless steel and aluminum. Architects were Fresno's Franklin & Kump & Associates. Construction costs were $290,000. To cut future maintenance bills, Architects Franklin & Kump eliminated all elevators, made use of natural light by means of oversize windows, skylights, glass panels atop interior walls. Instead of stairways, the building has wide ramps. Central feature of the building is an open two-story lobby. On the second floor...