Word: designs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a new Capitol -a summer-resort Capitol high up in the mountains, on the edge of a lake with good fishing, canoeing, hot and cold water, bellboy service. To design it, 85 youths were commissioned. They made preliminary sketches. Of these, five were chosen. They made complete plans. Last week the five waited on a fire-escape in Manhattan while inside a group of judges, headed by patrician Whitney Warren, famed architect, sat to find out which was the best. One Percival Goodman, 21, was presently informed that he had designed the pleasantest home for tire filibusterers, won thereby...
Then Nemesis tricked him. He lost his job in the City; his few shillings went. Shivering nights on the Embankment and hunger's fang stirred him to a violent design. He would get a harlot to take him home, then rob her. At this crux, his tears accomplished what his nerve funked. Marcelle kept him that winter as "her man," a pathetic sop to her vestige of womanly honor. When Marcelle was jailed for soliciting, Monsieur Ripois was most adroit. He stole her savings and decamped to Cricklewood, where it occurred to him to advertise French lessons under...
...committee, appointed by the Government, began the important work of deciding what shall be the design for a Canadian national flag...
...Design an entirely new flag...
...respects: Where Flettner's R. S. Buckau had had two rotor cylinders, the lieutenants used but one, believing they thus avoided a detrimental interaction; where the base and top disc of the Flettner cylinder had revolved, in the U. S. design it was stationary. The motive principle was the same as Flettner's, however: the Magnus principle, that wind passing over any surface creates suction on that surface, greatest on any part of the surface that does not move with the wind. Thus, the forward surface of a rotorship's cylinder being made to move into...