Word: projected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carnegie Project will seek "to codify previous study on the subject." Professor Parsons said, and "to bring out areas of agreement." At present, he reported, difficulties arise because experts in the different divisions of Social Relations see a subject from opposite perspectives...
...President expressed his pleasure and satisfaction in a gracious little off-the-cuff speech during lunch at the officers' club. He also confessed that as a politician he had been completely fascinated by one of the Army's less lethal developments-a pocket loudspeaker which would project the human voice for a full two miles...
...Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today." She had been thinking about the project a long time: "Plato once said that it is the duty of every philosopher to go down into a cave and shape his thoughts. I've been down in the cave. Now, I'm coming...
...experts are pessimistic about rockets propelled by nuclear energy. But Britain's nuclear rocketeers are cheery. L. R.Shepherd, technician at the Harwell atomic project (Britain's Oak Ridge), thinks a rocket should be pushed into space by high pressure ammonia gas shooting through a white-hot uranium pile...
Chuck Luckman, no man to tip his hand to real estate speculators, went about his project with as much secrecy as if he were making atom bombs out of soap chips. He set up several dummy corporations in New York, Boston and Chicago which began negotiating for parcels of Manhattan land like so many independent operators. The dummy corporations hired ten sets of lawyers, several banks and a covey of real estate scouts, none of whom were told that they were all working for Lever or even the same company. Lever executives who masterminded the deals used 20 unlisted phones...