Word: projected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vanport, Ore., on the banks of the Columbia River just outside Portland, was the nation's biggest wartime housing project. It was built in nine months, housed 40,000 people in its nearly 800 structures. At war's end, though many went elsewhere, 18,700 still remained...
...Twenty years ago, when the 200-inch telescope project came up before our group in New York, one of the trustees raised an objection . . . 'Aren't we acquiring more knowledge than we can assimilate?' . . . Obviously the difficulty lies in the fact that there is no way of foretelling what particular kind of knowledge is divertible to destructive ends . . . All knowledge has become dangerous. Indeed, knowledge has always been dangerous; for knowledge means power, and power can be used to degrade as well as to ennoble...
...University's building priority list, housing for students has taken tangible form in an architectural project (model shown above) at the School of Design under the guidance of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture...
...first such project by the Department of Architecture to earn recognition by the University administration includes dormitory accommodations for approximately 500 Law and Arts and Sciences students on the Jarvis Court site as well as a central dining hall and lounge building for all graduate students...
...Rome had a subway tunnel that stretched, Romans said, "from nowhere to nowhere." It began under the Colosseum and meandered five miles southwest to the site of a projected Fascist fairground outside the city. Last year the city fathers decided to complete the project by extending it 1¼ miles, from the Colosseum to the central railway station...