Word: projected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another point for the cynics was that no real progress had been made in its most important project: atomic control. Still another: Russia had used the lethal veto ten times to block action in the Security Council...
Slimmer, Steadier. The Navy says with a straight face that the Neptune is only a peaceful research project. Its specifications give it a warlike look. It will be 45 ft. long-one foot shorter than the German V2, which is now considered obsolescent. It will be slimmer (32 inches in diameter instead of 65) and will weigh about six tons fully loaded, instead of the V-2's 14 tons...
Rehearsal on Skates. A gusty woman who has been known to roller skate from her midtown club to the theater for rehearsals, Marie sits in absolute quiet for half an hour before each show to store up enough intensity to project the sinister malevolence of Madame Flora across the footlights. A Roman Catholic, she solemnly says "thank you" to the statuette of the Madonna on the stage when the final curtain is down. Says she: "I am having the time of my life. Each night I dedicate the performance to somebody-a friend, my dead husband. Then I think...
...Public Health Service's unspectacular mass X rays of the population (for early T.B. detection) have done most to take the T.B. death rate for a fall. This year a large-scale BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, named for its discoverers) vaccination project (TIME, Nov. 11) may take it still further. The plan, to vaccinate 100,000 U.S. schoolchildren against tuberculosis, has already been begun in Columbus, Ga., will soon move on to T.B. areas in large cities (including San Francisco's Chinatown). U.S. specialists, who have long viewed BCG with suspicion in spite...
...summer term begins with a predominantly veteran enrollment, paradoxically the Veterans Office, under the watchful eye of Counsellor-elect John U. Monro '34, will move ahead with a slimming-down project, which will turn veteran applicants over to the Committee on Admissions...