Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great future for the airplane in the stratosphere. I would say today that the limit of the airplane's endurance is about 12 miles above the earth. If it had not been for the vibration and the fact that I did not feel capable of attempting the design of such a plane, I might have used one myself...
...Psychology at Birkbeck College in the University of London. Though he plays such cheerful games as tennis and hockey, Jeremiah Joad also sits long over the chessboard, writes ironical, sarcastic books. A typical Joadism: "Advertisements are ugly, partly because commercial men rarely have the sense to employ artists to design them, partly because artists, on the rare occasions when they are employed, have not the sense to design what the commercial men want." (The Babbitt Warren, p. 143; Harper...
...aeronautical engine in the U. S.-800 h. p.† It is a Twin Wasp, with 14 cylinders in two concentric radial banks of seven cylinders each. Weight: 1.36 Ib. per h. p. Pratt & Whitney began experiments in increased power four years ago, decided on the two-bank radial design largely because it offers no more head resistance than the ordinary single-bank type. Observers guessed that the Twin Wasp would be installed in the new high-speed Boeing transports for United Airlines, and in the giant Sikorsky amphibions being developed for Pan American Airways...
Married. Norman Bel* Geddes, 39, stage & industrial designer; and Frances Resor Waite, his assistant in costume design, Cincinnati socialite; in Manhattan...
...best athlete in his class (1887). From McGill Theological Seminary he went to Springfield Y. M. C. A. College to teach. Amos Alonzo-Stagg went there the same year to coach football and Dr. Naismith played centre on Stagg's team. In 1891, he was assigned to design an indoor game for a gymnasium class. He knocked the bottoms out of two peach-baskets, nailed them to the gymnasium wall, handed a soccer ball to a group of undergraduates and taught them a set of rules which he had improvised. In its essentials, basketball remains as Dr. Naismith manufactured...