Word: designs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council of the Graduate School of Design will present Buckminster Fuller tonight in a lecture on "The Designer Takes the Initiative" at 8 p.m. in Hunt Hall...
...members. Two thousand artisans and working girls enrolled the first year for the Union's free courses, e.g., mathematics, chemistry, mechanical philosophy, theoretical and practical mechanics, drawing, vocal music. Cooper established weekly lectures in social philosophy, set up a public library and reading room, and a school of design to train "respectable females" for suitable jobs. To establish and endow Cooper Union, its founder had given...
...fastest fighter on view in the 1947 displays was (Jane's thinks) the YAK-17, a single-jet plane which looks something like Republic's Thunderjet. Probable maximum speed of the YAK-17: around 650 m.p.h. Jane's also reports a "research" plane of German design with a maximum speed of nearly 685 m.p.h. This is probably the plane which the Russians claim has passed the sonic barrier...
Actually the exhibition was bound to be disappointing; it would have required very great architects indeed to design "adequate" war memorials...
Overhanging concrete canopies protect workmen from the hot Texas sun and occasional rainstorms, while low railings keep them from walking off a floor. Because of better design and more mechanization, the plant operates with only 250 production employees compared to almost 500 in an old-fashioned refining plant with the same capacity...