Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that any egg that can be laid he can embroider; he has tried them from ostriches' to pigeons'. The Kahn method is first to blow the egg, then to drill thousands of minute holes through the shell, to run colored threads through the holes to form the design. No thread transfixes the entire egg; every, knot and thread end is made on the inside of the shell...
...logical and moderate one, in line with our traditional policy in Eastern matters. It gave a dignity to bur diplomacy which had been sadly lacking before. So much the more unfortunate is this apparent effort to back it up with an aggressive display of force. Whether by design or coincidence, the administration is likely to cause another violent nationalistic reaction in Japan. Memory is all too clear about the effect on Japanese public opinion of the League's "firm stand" in November, and the anger caused by garbled accounts of Secretary Stimson's remarks on the last Manchurian offensive...
...straw was seen in the one-man show Joseph Urban is giving in Manhattan of his works. The straw was not in his arty designs but prizes which were awarded by the Architects' Emergency Committee with money collected from admissions to the Urban exhibition. They were for small houses suitable for mass production. If the design which won first prize ($100 plus employment) should be typical of the home of the future that home will be factory-fabricated at $3,000, will have a steel frame, modern simplicity of design. It will have no basement and part...
...maintain his unnatural position he soon finds it necessary to band together into societies; within these societies men divide into the leaders and the led. Invention, technics become more and more complex: "The pace of discovery grows fantastic, and withal . . . human labor is not saved thereby." Knowledge to design and manage the machines becomes the leaders' technical monopoly. But as the led must always work still harder, they begin to strike, revolt. Mutiny even among the leaders spreads against the machine. In this mutiny technics will decay, Western civilization be destroyed...
...years before his death in 1931 but never took a degree. When he was 16 years of age, Ralph Adams Cram, famous Boston architect, took an interest in his work. While he was working in a draughtsman's office, he did his first work in stained glass when he designed a set of 36 medallions in glass for Teacher's College of Columbia University. Soon after he was allowed to submit a design for the 13-foot rose window in the Sacred Heart Dominican Church in Jersey City, N. J., and won the competition...