Word: designed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several months ago, circulated quietly (chiefly at newsstands), it has achieved wide popularity among people not squeamish at the mention of a "privy" or "backhouse." The speaker is a carpenter who specialized in privy construction, became thereat the champion of Sangamon County. He gives full details of the best design and procedure, with reasons...
After great uncertainty the council chose a design by Sculptor Alexandre Zeitlin and Architect Robert Lafferty, both of Manhattan. The model shows Gompers standing on a triangular pedestal with workingmen at each corner, looking up at him, shining searchlights upon him at night. President Green, awarding no contract to the prize winners, explained that the model "might be modified somewhat to suit the ideas of the Council...
When he first went to Europe, in 1904, he traveled chiefly in Italy where his taste became fixed for the delicacies of the Renaissance. After the War he abandoned all other interests for design. A luxurious Locomobile brochure astonished advertisers. He has since prospered...
...told him six years ago when, a Russian immigrant, he founded his U. S. company, that in 1929 it would bring $2,500,000, he would have believed it. He has never lacked self-confidence. In Tsarist days he was his country's foremost aeronautical engineer. He designed the world's first successful multimotored plane (a four-motor job, 1913), flew the first multimotored seaplane (his own design, 1914), enabled the Russians to make the first heavy air bombardments...
...Design: All the new bills are black & green (no more "yellow-backs"). All $1 bills portray Washington, all $2s Jefferson, $5s Lincoln, $10s Hamilton, $20s Jackson, $50s Grant, $100s Franklin, $500s McKinley, $1,000s Cleveland, $5,000s Madison, $10,000s Chase...