Word: designate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beam. To build a true, fishlike sub, the Navy scrapped all remaining vestiges of surface-ship design. The first test vehicle was the Albacore, built in 1953-a small (200 ft.) diesel-electric boat with extra-powerful batteries and a fat, well-streamlined hull. The Albacore's purpose was to use battery power extravagantly in short underwater spurts and find out what a true submarine could do. The performance was so good that the next step was obvious: to combine a nuclear engine with an Albacore hull...
...Outmoded design drops the efficiency of the Central Kitchen greatly. For example: approximately 2,000 gallons of milk are consumed daily in the Central Kitchen and its five connected House kitchens. However, there is no cold storage area large enough to hold this amount of milk, so deliveries must be made daily. Much manpower is wasted in cross-haulage between various storerooms--delivered foods may stay in one cooler for two or three hours until the next shipment arrives and then must be shifted to one of the two other small cold storage areas...
...bold proposal for the complete redevelopment of the area along the Charles River between Harvard and M.I.T. prepared by students at the Graduate School of Design was described in the current issue of The Architectural Forum...
...plan, drawn up last year by a number of fourth year graduate students under the direction of Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, calls for replacing the current slum area with a mixture of row houses, walk-up and high-rise apartment buildings...
...essence, the structure is a sunken platform supported by a one-story center post. It is intended merely to demonstrate the strength of the materials and design and to show the feasibility of building "on stilts...