Word: designate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catacombs & Souvenirs. A whole college of architects headed by Belgium's Paul Rome was appointed to design the pavilion. On a 153,000-sq. ft. plot just across from the U.S. pavilion, they built a high plaster wall around Civitas Dei. Inside is a slope-roofed church with a capacity for 2,500 standees (only the aged and infirm may sit), a 200-seat chapel and six smaller chapels. The pavilion also includes a restaurant for 2,000 and a three-story display building. Besides numerous Masses and multilingual confessors, attractions will include a 40-yd. mock...
...Designed by Jose L. Sert, Dean of the School of Design, the block will feature modern stores, tree-lined promenades along Holyoke and Dunster Streets, and an arcade through the center of the block to link the Yard and Houses...
John Gunther's Inside Russia Today is the profile of a nation-part guidebook, part political primer, part intelligence report. Much of the vast mosaic of facts, impressions, statistics and insights will be familiar to well-informed readers, but the design is unique and uniquely Gunther's, and so are some of the brightest fragments...
...against the life adjusters, who do not believe that mastery of a subject is very important, who give "open-book tests" in basic courses and proudly call their high schools "cafeterias of learning," who offer such dessert courses as "sewing, cooking, interior decorating, teaching, garage repair, driver training, dress design, fashion modeling, home budgeting and marketing, gardening, farming, carpentry, electrical'repair, machine tooling, mechanical drawing, first aid, chorus, tap. ballroom and square dancing, fly casting and how to conduct oneself on a date...
...will not bring in many new customers for aluminum. But Aluminium's President Nathanael V. Davis disagrees. He feels that when demand is soft, a price cut may help aluminum expand its inroads into other metals such as copper. "This." he says, "will encourage engineers and manufacturers to design their products for more aluminum, and thus will open up new applications for our product...