Word: designs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there still stalk, allegedly, the shades of the great Duke of Marlborough, "who taught uncertain battles where to rage," and his Duchess, the madcap Sarah, the wisest fool that ever time has made." Sarah, as everyone knows, deliberately slighted the great architect Vanbrugh by employing Sir Christopher Wren to design the "House" for her. Said she, when it was finished: "It cost ?50,000*. . . not really so extravagant, because it is the strongest and best house that was ever built...
...aircraft industry, production should be stimulated by letting standard contracts for two or three years for the bulk of the Government's needs, and small contracts on liberal terms should be made with firms which maintain competent staffs of designers, in order to encourage improvements in design...
Fifteen galleries filled With pictures by the important U. S. artists of the last 100 years were opened to the public last week by the National Academy of Design, Man- hattan. From Samuel F. B. Morse's portrait of the aged Marquis de Lafayette to George W. Bellows' famed "Club Night," the trim parade moves on. No circus procession, this, but the orderly march of a club of oddfellows in plain clothes. Here and there moves a strong or vivid figure† Sargent Bellows or Pennell† but the exhibit gave critics an opportunity to point out once...
...room, tried not to get their cuffs dirty and succeeded. For this was the Gripsholm, arriving on her maiden trip from Gothenburg, Sweden, the first direct oil-burning* liner to cross the Atlantic. The motive power is generated by two double-acting six-cylinder Diesel engines of a new design, the largest ever built, which use crude oil for internal combustion approximately as an "automobile uses gasoline. Each engine drives a propeller. The vessel averaged 17 knots. Its smokestacks are dummies...
...passion of motor makers to improve their product, and do it in a hurry too, has created in Detroit deep interest in an lleged "mystery car," which is said to be revolutionary in design and about to be produced by a Detroit motor concern...