Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Painter Harry Willson Watrous, 76, who specializes in small highly-finished figures, made news when he stepped out of the presidency of the National Academy of Design. Elected in his place was Norwegian-born Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), 54, academic painter of land and seascapes. President Lie's election statement to newshawks convinced Academicians that they need fear no disturbing innovations from their new administration...
Washington's design of Mount Vernon will be the subject of an illustrated lecture by Morley J. Williams, acting chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture. Delivered in Robinson Hall Annex at 8.15 o'clock this evening, the speech is the public portion of the annual meeting of the Georgian Society of America, which includes a number of Harvard graduates and graduate students. Mr. Williams will advance a new theory as to the factors influencing Washington in his estate's design...
...exhibit. There were portraits of Lenin in both shows but most were in the Independents, who also showed a picture by one Charles Goeller entitled Reconciliation, showing Diego Rivera and John Davison Rockefeller Sr. clasping hands in such a manner that each was thumbing his nose (see cut). A design for a new Rockefeller dime bore the motto "Oily to bed and oily to rise. . . ." The Salons of America's Poet's Dream by Columba Krebs was a woman with a raven for hair, cherries for lips, shells for ears, a lily for a hand, a swan...
Decisions have been reached by the 1934 Class Day Committee as to the design of the supper ticket and the choice of the Baccalaureate Hymn to be used at the exercises this spring. They were assisted in the latter decision by G. W. Woodworth, Assistant Chorister. The facsimile drawn by Robert Berner '34, of Dorchester, was accepted for the ticket and is a black and white sketch of the Dunster House gate...
...molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors in its flank opened for ladles. Nearby was the mold-a circular tank 2 ft. deep, 17 ft. across, composed of insulated silicate brick, its floor studded with circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside the plant a crowd of 4,000 had gathered. At 8:30 on the pouring floor quiet, pious Dr. George Vest McCauley, the company's physicist...