Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clinic for bewildered Freshmen, interested in the field of government, is the most ambitious project of the Council and fairly reeks of Grand Central Station. The founders have likened concentrators in any field to purchasers of a product who have no adequate way of knowing what they are getting. In the inglorious past, so far as we know, Harvard's motto has been: caveat emptor...
...doctor-inventor became so engrossed in his air-conditioning that he gave up medical practice to push his ice machines. An agent appointed in Manhattan accomplished little or nothing. Almost penniless, Dr. Gorrie went to New Orleans for backing, found a Boston man who bought half the project. The Bostonian died. Unable to interest anyone else, Dr. Gorrie went back to Apalachicola, secluded himself, brooded, sickened, died...
...same head-over-heels haste President Roosevelt had started another relief project at the other end of the Atlantic seaboard. Day after the S. S. Dixie went on a reef in a tropical hurricane last September, he announced that he was starting work on a ship canal across Florida. This debatable enterprise would cost $146,000,000 plus, might make a semidesert of that part of Florida lying south of the waterway (TIME, Feb. 17). As a means of putting men to work, the President turned $5,000,000 over to the Army Engineers, told them to get going...
...Quoddy, however, was not even fought for Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Hale quietly told the Senate that so far as he was concerned he did not favor any appropriation for Quoddy in the War Department bill; if President Roosevelt wished to continue Quoddy as a relief project, that was quite all right. Quoddy was not mentioned again in Congress...
...want to see the long arm of the Federal Government extended into the communities . . . either through the office of Education or through any other Federal agency," says Commissioner Studebaker. "I am a strong believer in local administration." His forum project would give the communities Federal funds, let them pick their own leaders and subjects. Hopefully he concludes: "The Federal Government can do nothing better calculated to inspire confidence in our democracy of free learning and discussion...