Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of peace prizes is multiplied, the volume of interest diminishes. The Bok plan received front page space; the Filene project drew substantial newspaper copy; the latest peace prize award remains unnoticed. Doctor Jordan of Leland Stanford has been granted the Herman prize for the best educational plan to maintain peace; its effect is too easily calculable...
...Passed a deficiency bill (providing funds for the soldier bonus) which was left on the calendar since last June when, in the closing minutes of the Session, Senator Pittman talked it to death because it did not include an appropriation of $500,000 for the "Spanish Springs immigration project" in which he was interested. This appropriation was included in the budget estimates for the Department of the Interior for next year, and Senator Pittman allowed the deficiency bill to pass. Then he heard that the Appropriations Committee of the House, in reporting the Department of Interior supply bill, had stricken...
Some years ago, wealthy, public-spirited Manhattanites sought to create a theatre similar to that which the Guild has become. They called their project the New Theatre and spent much money. The New Theatre has languished, but one of its backers was among those who made speeches over the Guild's cornerstone. This was Otto H. Kahn, Manhattan Mæcenas, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera Co. Said he of the Guild Theatre: "It is impressive . . . eloquent . . . that this building was erected not by the munificence of a rich man or the support...
Work on the new dormitory on the Yale campus will be resumed immediately, it was announced by the secretary's office at Yale yesterday. Construction work on this project was stopped on November 8 when the graduates and undergraduates protested against the erection of the building on the ground that it violated Yale traditions...
...excellent thing, but that he had not given the idea serious consideration because the velocity of the wind at the top of the Stadium is very great and to build a permanent covering would be made unpracticable by the expense. The Bowl is low and so the project there does not present the difficulties it would here. He also stated that the press stand is unsightly enough as it and a roof would probably add to its ugliness...