Word: designs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Artist Saint Gaudens modeled for the U.S. Treasury. He designed a $10 gold piece with a Liberty head, to which, at President Roosevelt's behest, he added an Indian warbonnet. This is known as the Mary Cunningham design- posed by an Irish maid. The Saint Gaudens $20 gold piece, showing a full-length Liberty, was modeled from a Swedish woman up to the neck, and the profile head from the Irish model...
...wind that blew dismayed this crew or troubled their artist minds; they fired salutes beneath Capital's boots, with every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary...
...should applaud TIME for having created this concise and effective symbol, which is not to my knowledge used in this way by any other publication. TIME should no more be criticized for not employing a new word whenever "famed" is needed than should a printer be expected to design a new asterisk every time one is called...
...naturalistic tendency of its design the pottery we found in the Mimbres Valley seems to be entirely peculiar to that section of Indian territory. On one bowl for instance is an almost perfect representation of a lizard...
...Medieval Church felt the incongruity of such [mundane] decorations and invented the solemn theory that the carved grotesquery (gargoyles, dragons, animals and devils) was intended to represent evil spirits turned by divine power into stone. But it is inconceivable that any such theory can justify Mr. Cram's design. If the plea is that the pugilists and the jockeys have been turned into stained glass by an angry God, it is rather hard on sports. If the plea is that churchmen play billiards and shoot at pigeons, it is superfluous. They do, and they do many other things that...