Word: projected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Library officials have known about the Lamont project for several years, Metcalf added. Procurement of books for the edifice has been going on for some time, he said, in addition to the constant expansion of Widener Library at the average rate of 105,000 volumes a year since the first World...
...dreamed up the "weasel," the tracked, amphibious jeep that wallowed through mud from Italy to the Pacific. Pyke first wanted his weasels built to jump sideways so they could avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended...
...next project: to write six books on international affairs...
...Robinson decided to make the great break. He went to New York, where he wrote poetry, worked for a while on a subway construction project, and sometimes nearly starved. Relief did not come until 1905, when Theodore Roosevelt, one of the few American Presidents who took a public interest in poetry, became enthusiastic over Robinson's verse and found him a sinecure, which gave him both a living and free time. But the years of loneliness and doubt had left a scar on Robinson's mind: failure remained his basic theme. Readers of this book may realize some...
...Swedish National Park Society, which was to sponsor the trip in that country, wrote that it could not adequately hardly the 60 men and all but withdrew its support. At the same time, Dutch, backers, an organization of ex-underground workers, declared themselves "hesitant" to support the project in view of present conditions in that country...