Word: projected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
Prize for a Truth. Marquand's big project was the Mr. Moto series-deftly continued murder stories about an obsequious Japanese detective. He had discovered that he could do the Mr. Moto stories in half the time by dictating them, and he decided to take on Apley too. Most of his friends thought it was a mistake and few besides his publisher, the late Alfred McIntyre of Little, Brown, encouraged him. When it won him the Pulitzer Prize, the first thing he did was to get on the phone and rib the people who had told him to stick...
...Renee Oakman Bradbury decided that they had been drawn to the life, that Wickford Point itself was the old family estate of Curzon Mill. Spurred in part by a sense of having served as Marquand's models, the cousins have so far successfully blocked Marquand in a project on which he has his heart set: purchase of the whole of the 40-acre Curzon Mill property...
Purchase cards, costing $1 and providing 10 to 25 percent discounts from over 20 Boston and Cambridge stores, will go on sale in House dining halls Wednesday, Chairman Donald L. Bornstein '50 of the National Students Association project announced last night...
...Botany Department's report to the Corporation failed to include any provision for the new degenerated properly, that august body voted to transfer the land's endowment to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. With the city of Cambridge pressing for more housing, the Corporation made plans for the project on which work began last month...