Housewives are finding literally hundreds of ways of getting the maximum use out of traditional designs, says Mr. Alden and they are doing it largely because Colonial craftsmen had `` an innate sense of the practical ''.

In the Art Modern period following World War II, jewelry designs became more traditional and understated.

Goodhue's designs for Caltech were also influenced by the traditional Spanish mission architecture of Southern California.

High quality class-D audio amplifiers have now appeared on the market-these designs have been said to rival traditional AB amplifiers in terms of quality.

In military use, bolt-action rifles with high-power scopes are common as sniper rifles, however by the Korean War the traditional bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles used by infantrymen had been supplemented by select-fire designs known as " automatic rifles " ( see " Automatic Rifle " below ).

The traditional design has all of the strings strung from the left side of the neck, but modern neck designs have the two outer rows of strings strung from opposite sides of the neck to greatly reduce the tendency for the neck to roll over to the left.

There are two types of cover plates: traditional open designs of stamped metal or plastic, which are simply there to be held, and enclosed designs ( such as the Hohner Meisterklasse and Super 64, Suzuki Promaster and SCX ), which offer a louder tonal quality.

From these two basic types, a few modern designs have been created, such as the Hohner CBH-2016 chromatic and the Suzuki Overdrive diatonic, which have complex covers that allow for specific functions not usually available in the traditional design.

He is known for combining traditional architectural elements with progressive designs based on simple geometric patterns.

Although these innovations are not all entirely new with Wadzinski, the book marks a significant advancement in published maze puzzles, offering expansions on the traditional puzzles that seem to have been fully informed by various video game innovations and designs, and adds new levels of challenge and complexity in both the design and the goals offered to the puzzle-solver in a printed format.

Playing cards first entered Europe in the late 14th century, probably from Mamluk Egypt, with suits ( sets of cards with matching designs ) very similar to the tarot suits of Swords, Staves, Cups and Coins ( also known as disks or pentacles ), and which are still used in traditional Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese decks.

Generally the hardware is identical to a traditional plotter except that the ink pen is replaced by a very sharp knife that is used to cut out each shape, and the plotter may have a pressure control to adjust how hard the knife presses down into the vinyl film, allowing designs to be fully or partly cut out.

Since then, Languedoc has built exclusively for the two, and his designs and traditional wood choices have given Phish a unique instrumental identity.

Prince Ivan III introduced Renaissance architecture to Russia by inviting a number of architects from Italy, who brought new construction techniques and some Renaissance style elements with them, while in general following the traditional designs of the Russian architecture.

The most common word used for traditional Japanese tattoo designs is Horimono.

Contemporary Welsh artist Jen Delyth created a Celtic Tree of Life symbol, in part based on ancient Celtic veneration of trees and traditional Celtic designs.

The spin cast reel is an attempt to solve the problem of backlash found in bait cast designs, while reducing line twist and snare complaints sometimes encountered with traditional spinning reel designs.

The residential buildings in Thimphu have also undergone change in their construction methods without sacrificing the traditional Bhutanese designs said to be " reminiscent of Swiss Chatels.

Most modern designs have only one sail, the mainsail ; however the traditional catboat could carry multiple sails from the gaff rig.

The actual colors shown differ, but many of the designs are based on the traditional scheme of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, or some more modern division of the rainbow spectrum ( often excluding indigo, and sometimes including cyan instead ).

The traditional parallel-panel ( cross-cut ) gave way to more complex ( radial ) designs where the panels have different shapes for the top, mid, and lower sections of the sail depending on pressure of the air caused by its flow over the sail surface.

The IMS Learning Design specification is intended as a standard format for learning designs, and IMS LD Level A is supported in LAMS V2. elearning has been replacing the traditional settings due to its cost effectiveness.

More recent muxponder designs have absorbed more and more TDM functionality, in some cases obviating the need for traditional SONET / SDH transport equipment.

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

The traditional public art program began during the Depression in the 1930s when Iowa State College ’ s President Raymond Hughes envisioned that " the arts would enrich and provide substantial intellectual exploration into our college curricula.

Despite common attitudes regarding women's traditional roles in the 1930s, independent and masculine women were directly recruited by the military in the 1940s, and frailty discouraged.

It is a modified version of the flag Sandino used in the 1930s, during the war against the U. S. occupation of Nicaragua which consisted of two vertical stripes, equally in size, one red and the other black with a skull ( like the traditional Jolly Roger flag ).

During the 1930s, because of traditional right-wing elements, Bulgaria drew closer to Nazi Germany.

Daffy was one of the first of the new " screwball " characters that emerged in the late 1930s to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier in the decade, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye.

People born in the 1930s and 1940s tended to be loyal to the new state and tended to adhere to " traditional " divisions of society.

It was constructed by CCC crews in the 1930s of the Great Depression, according to traditional knowledge and methods.

The 1930s Sunday pages did not always employ traditional gags but often offered a gentle view of nature, imaginary daydreaming with expressive art or naturalistic views of small town life.

Japan's colonial boom was in part a response to the actions of more established powers, and her expansionism drew on the harnessing of traditional Japanese values to more modern aspirations for great-power status ; not until the 1930s was Japan to become a net exporter of capital.

As opposed to modern swing technique, followers of old-style traditional Lindy Hop prefer not to use moves and technique that cannot be found in movies from the 1950s, 1940s, 1930s and 1920s.

Among the critically acclaimed band leaders of the 1930s and 1940s whose performances included elements of both " Sweet Band " music and traditional swing music was Shep Fields.

The style also accelerated the revival of swing dancing, both in a traditional style, and in hybrid approaches which blended 1930s dancing with 2000-era dance styles.

) had been on the decline for some time, and, of course, the serial appealed heavily to fanciers of those genres, people who usually thumbed their noses at the often sentimental domestic or romantic themes that traditional soaps had relied on since their inception on radio in the 1930s.

In the 1920s and 1930s the intellectual movement known as Afrocubanismo gave roots to traditional rumba When this afrocubanismo movement came along it helped open the doors to African rooted dancing and ways of expression.

Many of these urban revivalists were influenced by the recordings of traditional American music from the 1920s and 1930s that Folkways Records had reissued, with Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music series of albums being particularly influential.

Before the 1930s, Western lifestyle and western art had put pressure on the traditional Turkish formats which were marginalized.

During the 1920s and 1930s, the Vanderbilt Agrarians of the Southern United States advocated a lifestyle and culture centered upon traditional and sustainable agrarian values as opposed to the progressive urban industrialism which dominated the Western world at that time.

The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay which is an essential instrument in most tango ensembles from the traditional orquesta típicas of the 1930s and 1940s onwards.

Malaysia's pop music scene developed from traditional asli ( pure ) music popularized in the 1920s and 1930s by Bangsawan troupes.

The tendency to combine different elements also has a long presence in more classical music: the opera Ero s onoga svijeta, written by Jakov Gotovac in the 1930s, blended the traditional music of the Dinaric peoples into a scholarly form and achieved great success.

Perhaps the most famous ( and influential ) Sinti musician is the guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt, who fused traditional dance hall musettes with American jazz of the day ( 1930s and 40s ) and, along with Stéphane Grappelli and the other members of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, founded the style of music known as “ Gypsy Jazz ”.

Beginning in 1928 and accelerating in the 1930s, he also adapted traditional Kazakh instruments for use in Russian-style ensembles, such as by increasing the number of frets and strings.