Word: designs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of U.S. families in search of a not-too-expensive house with the maximum of good living and good design, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put up a bid. Last week in the museum garden it showed a "suburban" house which had been painstakingly built on the premises...
...brainchild of a 47-year-old architect named Marcel Breuer, who made himself known 24 years ago by inventing tubular steel chairs (in Germany's longtime Mecca of modern architects, the Bauhaus school of design). Architect Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937, taught for nine years at Harvard under his old Bauhaus boss, Walter Gropius, before setting up in business in Manhattan...
...this definition The Brave Bulls, from first to last strong with a sense of design, qualifies as a work...
Ordinarily, the concentrator's program include Fine Arts 11a and 11b, the survey from Ancient to Modern Art, and Fine Arts 12, Theory of Drawing and Fatsting and Principles of Design. He must also take at least two of the numerous courses devoted to historical periods...
Even flying much slower than sound, airplanes can run afoul of shock waves. The air crowding past them has to go faster to get around their curved surfaces. If, in its hurry, the air hits the speed of sound, shock waves form locally. Good design has steadily raised the speed at which an airplane can fly without trouble from local shock waves. But there is a limit: the speed of sound itself.* At this critical speed, an airplane's motion is sure to generate shock waves...