Word: projected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegation was doing what it could to bring UNESCO down to dry earth by backing practical Minister Torres Bodet's election, and by insisting that each division of the organization provide competent working plans for every project for which funds are required. But there was another hurdle in the path that could not be surmounted by hardheaded business methods alone. That was the tendency of UNESCO delegates to avert their eyes from the very issues that needed to be faced most squarely...
...from causing rain, the dry ice often produced the opposite effect: it made clouds dissipate. In rolling officialese, the Air Force and Weather Bureau expressed their joint disillusionment: "The responsible scientists of the project interpret the long series of experiments to mean that recently proposed artificial weather modification processes are of relatively little economic importance...
...school laws into everyday language, and had them published in newspapers throughout the state, so that everyone could judge them. They denounced the state administration for spending $25,000 to investigate the school system, and then hiding the report from the public. Finally, the council began its most ambitious project: it sent out committees to investigate the condition of every one of Delaware's 164 public schools. Last week, the first report went out to educators, legislators, and civic groups all over the state...
...scholarships, under the present provisions of the project, would be awarded to high school students throughout the country on the basis of competitive examinations. Stipends would range from $500 to $1000 annually to issue the financial independence of scholarship winners. They would be able to attend any accredited college and take whatever courses they choose...
President Conant in his recent book, "Education in a Divided World," favored a federal scholarship program. A similar project had also been outlined by President Truman's Commission on Higher Education...