Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this irrigation system the Egyptians have seen a grave danger to their water supply, although the British have repeatedly proved that control of water in the drought seasons by no means meant a diminution of the supply. In the new dam project the Egyptians are therefore likely to see a further threat to their riparian agricultural interests...
Believing that to the influence of Rasputin all Russia's misfortunes in the early part of the War could be traced, the author-prince tells of the formation of a conspiracy to kill the monk: "Our house on the Moika was chosen as the place where the project was to be carried out. A suite of rooms there was being adapted for my own use and would serve our purpose better than anything else. My associations with Rasputin would afford me an opportunity of persuading him to come and visit...
Professor Edward Capps of Princeton and the school at Athens had announced a few days before that Arthur Woods, onetime (1914-18) police commissioner of New York City, had already furnished checks approximating $250,000 to begin the project, largest and most costly archeological diggings ever undertaken. Two and a quarter millions more would come as work progressed. Professor Capps had planned to get the money from U. S. universities and patrons of Archeology. Solicitation, he knew, would be difficult. U. S. schools have their domestic money needs. Mr. Woods' checks physicked the trouble...
...that here is built up a tragedy, weakened by a happy ending; but the happiness is a realistic accident arising out of the destruction of youth's defiant assuredness. Poetic writing, sensibility to the relationship between men and Nature, insight into the illogicality of human action, human destiny, project the reader into the inscrutable problems and emotions of life, receive critical praise...
...Business School are hazy as to its definite contributions to human progress, may be enlightened by the announcement of the plans for study of aviation which are being formulated across the Charles. As an example of the sought-for coordination between theoretical and practical experiments in education this project is both extremely timely and potentially valuable. Acting as a sort of clearing house for Old World information and data on industrial aviation the Business School is working for the cause of aviation in the United States, continuing in a movement which received its greatest impulse in Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic...