Word: designation
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design toured the Loop enthusiastically wailing plugs for Art Week. On nearby sidewalks pretty models paraded with paintings stuck to them like sandwich boards. In Rochester the art show in the Civic Exhibits Building vied for honors with a poultry show where a human crowing contest was in progress, hired an orchestra...
...coincidence or design, the Edwards investigation came at a time when many a merchant yearned restlessly for higher price tags. Meat prices were boosted in September. Grocers and other retailers, watching the defense boom, talked about the necessity of keeping prices down, thought about the possibility of putting them up. Three weeks ago, in Colorado, they put them...
...courses, preparatory to graduate work in the School of Design, afford the members an almost unlimited choice in the type of artistic work they may do. Not only is this program unique at Harvard but colleges throughout the country are coming to look to it to blaze a path of progressive teaching through the traditional conservatism of undergraduate instruction...
Samuel F. Hershey, Instructor in Design, summed up the new program which is slowly growing to intercollegiate proportions, by saying. "Design today is an orderly arrangement of materials for our own service to fit the circumstances, and it can manifest itself in any one the projects...
Reticent about discussing money, Oboler admits he is making twice as much as anybody should. He is having Frank Lloyd Wright design a $20,000 house for a 25-acre mountaintop he owns in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Pacific. Feature of the place (name: "Aeire") is a stream which according to present plans will run through the Oboler living room. On his mountaintop Oboler plans to do further experimental work for the radio. He realizes his responsibilities. "I have," he says, "a larger audience now than Shakespeare ever...