Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fronting Fifth Avenue and forming the central structure on that side of the development will be an oval building of moderate height and great beauty of design. On the first floor will be located many fine shops. The second floor will be occupied by a large banking institution, and on the roof a large restaurant will be built with an outdoor promenade running around the entire building. This oval building will extend to a magnificent garden plaza that will be cut through the development and will run parallel with Fifth Avenue from 48th to 51st Streets . . . the most impressive boulevard...
...years wore on, more millions were supplied to carry out Mr. Carnegie's design. Originally intended simply to pension superannuated pedagogs, the Foundation began a campaign of thoroughgoing educational research. To date it has published 50 fat, dun-colored bulletins and reports. President Pritchett had to bear the brunt of hostile criticism when, in 1918, the Foundation ceased giving further pensions, inaugurated instead the Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association (assets: $18,992,018) which insures the beneficiary at cost. In the U. S. and Canada 8,132 provident pundits are now guaranteed old-age annuities...
Four columns wide across the front page of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Public Ledger was spread the preliminary design for the façade of the latest Curtis benefaction to Philadelphia: a $4,000,000 civic cultural center for opera, symphony, drama. Already, the accompanying announcement read, a site had been purchased by Publisher Curtis at a cost of $2,000,000: practically the whole of a city block located opposite the Academy of Natural Sciences...
Jesse Baker Snow, engineer, assistant chief of construction and design of Manhattan's Holland Vehicular Tunnel Sc.D...
...more than a decade after it was founded in 1900, Smart Set was a parlor table favorite with its familiar cover design of a man and woman coyly greeting each other while a cupid and black devil played havoc with their hearts. Its most startling upheaval occurred in 1914, after an enforced change of owners. Eltinge F. Warner, publisher of Field & Stream was made publisher and Mencken & Nathan found themselves editors. Under that regime many a now-famed author (examples: James Joyce, Lord Dunsany) was given his first U. S. audience. Others who were early recognized, if not actually discovered...