Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moines Register in banishing all crime from its front page has undertaken one of the most commendable experiments ever tried by a newspaper. The success of the project naturally still hangs in the balance; the theory is still new and untried, but such an innovation certainly deserves all the help that can be given it. Particularly at this time when all news is sensation, and all sensation news there should be some champion of a better era. The Des Moines Register has been the first to take up arms, the first to attempt a remedy...
...Leaves. A vagrant project, of the type that annually prowls unheralded into a vacant theatre during the Lenten season of depression and low rentals, appeared under this curious cognomen. It told how women will do anything for clothes. Two in particular had only a paltry $40,000 income and longed to spend it all on evening wraps. They both got into difficulties, gave their husbands opportunity for angry exit. It was one of those high-society plays, written (by Harry Chapman Ford) in the best manner of burlesque and acted even beyond that inexpensive level. There have been...
...every business organization and the silent improvement of most of the public. Up to date its existence has been precarious. Mr. Lomasney the political boss of the West End, although he was instrumental in putting through the very costly widening of Cambridge Street, did his best to spike this project when it, at last reached a legislative hearing...
...recreation director for Franklin Park, the marine zoologist for the Aquarium at City Point, and the engineer for Stuart Street extension. Politics was the architect for a beautiful bridge spanning the Charles at Massachusetts Avenue. Politics was the name of the hard-headed business man that quashed the project and then threw away some bushels of taxpayers money reinforcing the old ugly structure. In the present case, Politics does not know quite which way to jump. A little more pressure from the voter and it may jump in the only sensible direction...
...king of a prominent ring of bootleggers, in a special statement to the CRIMSON last night, said that while he had no knowledge of any Federal drive on foot, he was greatly concerned about the possibility of such a project. "They would have very little trouble in drying up Cambridge, if they ever took a notion to. Cambridge is a poor field for a bootlegger; students are too indiscreet...