Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week President Roosevelt had a long talk with Clyde Leroy Seavey, acting chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Administrator John M. Carmody of the Rural Electrification Administration and Ervin E. King, Master of the Washington State Grange, in whose bailiwick the Government is building the great Bonneville Dam hydroelectric project. When reporters trooped in later for the regular press conference, they found the President full of thoughts on Power. He launched into a long dissertation on the theory of utility rates. By the time the reporters were free to head for telephones, they had a front-page business story...
Over $1,000 a week of WPA funds have been allotted to the Office of Education Radio Project for this series. Columbia, putting it on as a sustaining program, will spend about three times as much. Inspired by the 1936 Buenos Aires conference, Commissioner Studebaker and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles hatched the idea a year ago. The programs, based on careful historical research by a staff headed by Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, adviser to the U. S. delegates at Buenos Aires, are checked by university professors, Pan American Union authorities and the Office of Education...
...benefit of fascinated multitudes in four of the biggest U. S. cities-Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles - planetaria project artificial stars on artificial skies by means of big, complicated, dumbbell-shaped projectors, made by Zeiss and imported from Germany. Present price of a Zeiss instrument is around...
...specifications of the Prophet Isaiah -so that wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein? Maybe so. But I have not yet had a release to announce that Isaiah's way of the saints is to be staked out through the New York Stock Exchange as a Federal project. . . . Let us patrol well our 20th-century business highway! Let us crucify the thieves, as Pontius Pilate would have done had he been attending to his job. But do not ordain that everyone moving along on his lawful occasions shall conform his pace to that of the slowest and worst...
...Scene I, a curly-haired youngster (Alexander Kirkland) gives up sweetheart and golf clubs when off-stage voices, quoting scripture, call him to the Church's service. Through 14 subsequent scenes, stern dominies keep this young, progressive zealot from his project of awakening the Church to "the demands of a changing world." They block his plan for a Church dance, they prevent his sheltering a pursued harlot, just as he has concluded that the Church is not all that it should be, his disapproving seniors unfrock him. He is glad...