Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chester Conklin). Any actor with Chester Conklin at his elbow runs grave risk. Mr. Conklin is so superbly comic that the witnesses are likely to be annoyed at interruptions by the usual movie romance. Such is the case with this display. Richard Dix, inevitably capable and decorative, tries to project a threadbare mythical kingdom story in opposition to Mr. Conklin's staggering comedy. Probably for the first time in history the custard pie is the power behind the throne...
...states, all except Illinois, led by the veteran onetime Senator Burton of Ohio, fought the Illinois waterway tooth and nail, because they alleged it would lower the level of the lakes. They also charged that the survey of the All-American route was a waste of money because the project was impracticable. Another group opposed the Cape Cod Canal purchase, charging that it. was an attempt to unload an unprofitable* private enterprise on the Government...
...filibuster. The opponents of the measure had only one success. They succeeded in adding a provision for a six-foot channel in the Missouri River from Kansas City to Sioux City, 400 miles. As the bill was taken up, it carried appropriations of $36,000,000. With the added project it may cost the Government from $52,000,000 to $73,000,000. The reason they favored the Missouri project was to make the bill so cumbersome as to defeat...
...question yet to be definitely answered is whether the concession was a British move to prevent U. S. rubber-planting in Panama. Until that question is settled, the dastardliness of the project cannot be estimated...
...Into the belly of the effigy a pin was stuck supporting a sheet of paper with the words: "Dr. Elwood Mead" [U. S. Commissioner of Reclamation]. The other horrible object bore the legend: "Dr. Hubert Work [U. S. Secretary of the Interior]. For breaking his word and depriving a project of water...