Word: designations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wolfson's current endeavors are part of the same work he has been doing for over twenty years--fulfillment of the grand design of "working out more fully the background of the problems dealt with in Spinoza's philosophy." In 1937 he began doing research for a 12-volume project entitled The Structure and Growth of Philosophic Systems from Plato to Spinoza...
...serious U.S. challenger: Bandleader Guy Lombardo, who is building a new aluminum jet-propelled hydroplane that he will try out this fall. Lombardo professed to be undisturbed by Campbell's latest feat. "We figured when we planned our boat," he said, "that we would have to design it to go 300 m.p.h. I'm confident we'll beat Campbell's record...
...wellspring of any architectural masterpiece lies in its design; blueprints and bricks come later. Even such a titan as the late Frank Lloyd Wright had to wait years to see his "impossible" ideas bear fruit. And the more adventurous the pioneer, the longer the wait. One of the most adventurous of all is Manhattan's Frederick Kiesler, who at 62 has originated more ideas and seen fewer of them built than almost any other architect of his time...
Medical facilities will be contained in the first part of the building to be constructed. Plans drawn by Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, provide for the initial stages of construction covering the parking lot adjacent to the Hygiene Building and extending to Dunster St. This phase will cost an estimated $3-3.5 million...
...poems on the whole make interesting reading, and are probably more competent than the usual Identity fare. The two most polished are among the simplest in design, An Old Song and Correspondances. In these Mr. Phelps evokes a sort of nostalgic atmosphere which appears to a greater or lesser degree in most of the other pieces, but which is most effective in these two. There are a few more of these simple poems which for some reason don't quite come off; one which vaguely tries to describe the creative process, somewhat like MacLeish's Ars Poetica, and is similarly...