Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. It was the 20-passenger tandem-wing machine built, at an expense of about $500,000, by Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inks & inkwells. Eccentric Inventor Davis was killed last month when he tried to test a glider of the same design (TIME, March...
...this in view, I suggest first that the chapel should be as much a thing of beauty as possible. This can be achieved only if it is built elsewhere than in the Yard, as suggested in this morning's CRIMSON, and only if there is an open competition for design among the architects of the country, rather than a commission to one chosen firm...
...forms, in the first act used a Suite and a Passacaglia with 21 variations, in the second a five-movement symphony, in the third a series of inventions. Like Schönberg he used the combination of song and speech which the Germans call sprechstimme. But behind his strict design and his many novel effects (in one scene he introduces an accordion, harmonica and guitar), there is the same savage pity that Büchner had for his soldier. One European critic has called Wozzeck the greatest opera since Pellèas et Mèlisande. Stokowski must also...
...nation's perfect man is John Tempre of Manhattan, chosen from some 300 candidates by the Clothing Designers' Executives' Association. Perfect Man Tempre, selected because of the fortuitous "proportions and postures of his body," is 28.5 ft. 8 in. tall, weighs 138 lb., unmarried. His chest measures 36 in., his sleeves are 17½in. long. Stylists were inspired to design for him a modish, summery tea-dance outfit...
South Dakota's Senate put their State in the race by voting 39 to 5 for a 90-day bill of the standard design, but after a motion to reconsider, the bill was defeated...