Word: designs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineers advanced a theory to account for the accident. The amphibian planes were of a new design, having their Liberty motors inverted to afford the pilot greater forward vision and headroom. The unavoidable "blind spot" of the planes thus remained below the pilot, at close range. The Detroit, which appeared to have precipitated the tragedy, evidently lost the New York in this "blind spot" and descended upon...
...with mail. By tens of thousands thinkers (and guessers) wrote in to say that the cards held up had been every card in the pack, including the joker. Actually, as a few guessed, it was the deuce of clubs, later the nine of hearts? but no one described the design of the cards: green on a black field, and red on a black field. They said the picture was a portrait of Edward VII, of the Prince of Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually it was a Japanese print of two birds perched...
...Designs for the tickets are to be made on white paper with black India ink and are to be of a simple figure. The size of the tickets is to be four and one half by seven and one half inches, and the design should bear the following legend...
...lecture hall is located below the street level. Upon entering, the student is dazzled by a magnificence unfamiliar to habitures of Sever and Harvard Halls. The room has the general design of a motion picture theatre, with sloping tiers of seats, each one equipped with a new device for supporting notebooks, and for ventilating the immediate neighborhood...
...monument and tablet appropriately inscribed to mark the site of the old Harvard boathouse, which was in constant use from 1869 until the opening of the present Newell boathouse, has been set in motion under the direction of C. A. Coolidge '81. Mr. Coolidge is making the design and had agreed to direct the work...