Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation, was deserted through his opposition to the scheme. "It seemed as if the whole nation had turned stock jobbers. Exchange Alley . . . was blocked by crowds. Every fool aspired to be a knave. . . . Innumerable joint-stock companies started up everywhere, soon receiving the name of bubbles", such as a project to carry on a whale fishing trade, by name the Grand Fishery of Great Britain; one for a perpetual motion machine, capital one million; and finally, "one for undertaking a great advantage, but nobody to know what...
...TARDIEU, French Deputy: "Lloyd George has lied and lied, without intelligence. . . . The interview is the fruit of a delirious imagination. There never was a secret agreement between Clemenceau and Wilson. . . . To qualify as a secret agreement a project which was for six weeks in the hands of the British delegation as well as the American delegation . . . is either an inept or malevolent procedure?perhaps both...
There began in London a campaign to raise $500,000 to establish a permanent opera company. Prime mover is Isadore D. Elara, a British composer who has been well received in Paris. The project takes the guise of the familiar "music for the masses," in that it plans a box office rate of $1 for the best seats. There are to be no highly paid stars, but a large company with full length seasons. The present Covent Garden yearly season lasts only six weeks...
...Beatty, had threatened to resign. Ominous growls were heard. Then the news was published that the Government intended to send one of the floating docks, surrendered by Germany, to Singapore instead of building a costly graving dock. It became evident that the Government had not dropped the Singapore Base project, which Labor had been so prominent in denouncing. It was likewise assumed that Britain's most popular Admiral, Lord Beatty, would not resign. The utmost quiet reigned...
...probable route of such traffic, in the event of the realization of the project, would be down Cambridge street, over the Charles River dam, up a ramp to the end of the bridge from the North Station to the junction of Porter and Orleans streets in East Boston, and thence over the usual road...