Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willing but the flesh is weak." Averaging about 185 words a minute, he had preached 21 hr. 20 min., spoken some 200,000 words. He went to bed, soon arose feeling fit and claiming he had gained a pound. Then he donned a white silk blouse of his own design, which he usually wears only at baptismal services, and posed for photographers...
Most famed of all is Igor Sikorsky, who began flying in Russia in 1908, flew in the War, left Russia after the Revolution and is now the leading U. S. builder of flying boats. Sikorsky's chief engineer is Russian Michael Gluhareff, Brother Serge Gluhareff, authority on structural design, is also in the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport...
Michael Gregor, who built the first private Russian airplane, a modified Bleriot, in 1910 and sold it to Major Seversky's father. A War flyer, Gregor arrived in the U. S. in 1921, designed several planes including the Bird in which Charles Augustus Lindbergh taught his wife to fly. Gregor had a hand in the design of the Seversky amphibian, is currently freelancing...
Special exhibits of the "new architecture" of Mexico, and of recent work by architectural students in the Graduate School of Design are being held now at Robinson and Hunt Balls, in connection with the convention of the American Institute of Architects, in Boston. Both exhibits will be open to the public until after the Harvard commencement...
...Mexican exhibit, at Hunt Hall, includes over two hundred photographs illustrating this nation's modern "renaissance" of building design in the construction of every important type of building from the simplest workers' houses and private dwellings to large office buildings, hospitals, markets, warehouses, schools, factories, airports...