Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...backers of the moneyed sport, many of them college graduates, declare that their project will not prove a bad influence on the collegiate game. Thus Dr. Harry A. March, sponsor of the Giants declares that "everything is done to prevent an amateur from commercializing his ability while he still belongs to an amateur organization. Everything is done to keep down gambling. I also believe that with the incentive of a professional career ahead, college players will constantly better the standard of their game. The professional game will also bring the small college player his due. Take the case of Parnell...
...Moulton Pettey, an income tax auditor in the Treasury, and that its drive for funds was headed by a professional promoter, one A. Winslow Lowell, working on commission. It appeared further that Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and close friends believed that the enterprise would be a failure and left the project strictly alone, although saying nothing. Mr. Pettey did not know Mr. Wilson, had never met him, but once (as a stenographer) had taken down a speech he made. Promoter Lowell had never even seen Woodrow Wilson. How the sum of $5,500,000 was fixed upon and exactly...
...Roscoe Thayer, Robert Bacon, and Owen Wister, it had its narrowest escape from extinction in 1882, nine years after its birth. Financially on the rocks, the CRIMSON was all but ready to surrender and be absorbed by its rival; only by a margin of one vote was the merger project defeated...
...Beta Kappa to make plans for the sesquicentennial next year. Important features of the progress of many of these gatherings will be addresses reviewing the history of the fraternity and reports of the progress made in raising the one hundred fiftieth Anniversary Endowment Fund, the most significant project initiated by the United Chapters in recent years...
...Although recent evidence apparently shows that the submarine can do little in direct combat with enemy battle units, it is well suited to destroying enemy commerce and striking fear into noncombatants. Even though abolishing submarines might protect these noncombatants, it is scarcely worth wasting breath on such a project at the present time. In the event of any great war in the future, the noncombatant population will be in far greater danger from aerial and chemical threats, if one is to believe the prophecies of scientists and military experts. And the whole project of calling a conference for the purpose...