Word: projected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the first few flights have proved it airworthy, the airplane is turned over to a military test pilot as his "project." He takes it into the air, loaded with automatic recording instruments, to find out whether it lives up to the contractor's guarantees. Often a hidden defect, perhaps unknown even to the manufacturer, drags the plane out of the air. The pilot's best bet is to make an emergency landing on the broad lake. Bailing out alive from a modern jet plane is difficult; it is also part of the test pilot's code...
Dunster House last night voted 292 to 59 to support a DP next year. The vote, on a poll, came after considerable House opposition to the project, mainly on grounds of other high expenses this year in the House...
...Executive Committee will decide before June 1 the specific project for which the fund will be spent. Leading alternatives last night were the DP fund and the adoption of a Chinese student. The fund was set up over a year ago out of the proceeds of Henry A. Wallace's speech at Soldiers Field...
...Tutorial: "In the individual tutorial session the student is carrying the largest part of the discussion, and more important, the nature of the two-way conversation means that be must really project himself into what he is discussing and develop a comprehensive understanding of the topic...
Dean Keppel of the Education School, announcing the appointments, explained that the eventual goal of the new project is to help schools understand the needs, resources, and ideals, of the children placed in their care...