Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cohesive Design. The story of Amoskeag begins in the early 1800s, when Samuel Blodgett, a Massachusetts businessman, was looking for a farm to buy near the small village of Derryfield on the Merrimack River. Just back from England, and impressed with the opportunities in the textile industry, he instead put his fortune into building a canal linking the Merrimack with Boston. He boasted: "Here, at my canal, will be a manufacturing town that shall be the Manchester of America." The small cotton mill he started did indeed grow to house the largest textile mill in the world, and after...
...after he has finished serving his time, Barnes plans to design and sell security devices. "I think I've perfected a window that can't be entered, and I've got some ideas about locks," he says...
Cozzens, to give him the benefit of any doubt, may have wanted Worthington's distended and directionless nar rative style to serve as a form of complex characterization and ironic statement: it is Worthington's recurring point that life is drift as much as design. In a wry put-on, Cozzens may have intended'to mock that notion. But if that is the case, the novel still fails, because Cozzens has chosen to write against the grain of his own special talent-that of a meticulous and compulsive craftsman-which demands the imposition of a precise design...
...accident or design, man seems de ermined to upset the delicate balance of nature in Florida. The water hyacinth, imported by a flower lover in 1884, has clogged canals all over the southern end of the peninsula. Clearing operations cost more than $1,000,000 annually. The 30-in. Bufo toad (Bufo marinus), introduced to the Miami area in the 1950s to eat insects, now feeds on the young of native toads, and hundreds of dogs have died after biting into the Bufo's poisonous neck sacks...
...Delta," it is considerably longer (176 in. to 159 in.) than the Volkswagen, but does not stand quite as high (53 in. to 59 in,). It will get about 22 miles to a gallon of gasoline. Ford hopes to keep the cost under $2,000 by incorporating into its design as many parts from the Falcon as possible...