Word: projected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lassoing Director. There were a few rebuffs: touchy Poet Ezra Pound blew his top; and the Widow Bridges remarked delicately that "she felt that there were statements in [her husband's] philosophy which implied a fundamental opposition to the theories behind our project." But undaunted Director Abbott galloped over England and the U.S., roping poets left and right-". . . lunch at Taplow with Walter de la Mare . . . the Isle of Wight with Alfred Noyes. . . . Witter Bynner adobe-housed at Santa Fe . . . Louis Untermeyer [cornered] in a cool fastness of the Adirondacks. . . ." Director Abbott sometimes corralled as many as five poets...
...program was only partially realized, partly due to our own failures and partly because we presently found ourselves in a political battle. The business board regarded the whole project as an extravagance at a time when the paper had difficulty meeting expenses. Some of the more conservative active members of the other boards were also in dissent. There was a running fight during most of my senior year and the issue came to a showdown in the election of my successor as president. After much study of the constitution, a meeting was called of all the editors who were then...
Although the original Salzburg Seminar has been in operation only one summer, the Canadian International Student Service has already decided it promising enough to open a similar project this year in Germany. The group will give courses in "Modern Trends in Humanities...
...minority consults Mr. Cramer, because the assumption is that you earned a college degree by work and study and thought, occasioned by personal interest. It is a fraud, I think, to parade a degree under conditions other than those--just as wrong as it is to present an engineering project under your name if it was drawn up by Mr. Cramer. And it is socially wrong in that Mr. Cramer's hobby emphasizes the fact than the acquisition, of a degree (i.e. and education) is auditioned primarily on the resources of the check-book, rather than of the brain...
...last to finish his part of the project was Robert Chapin, whose department was responsible for the accompanying charts. The difficulty of getting year-end figures and of converting commodity exports to metric tons, etc. held Chapin up until 24 hours before his deadline. His department worked practically around the clock illustrating the significant phases of the story which could best be told with charts. Thanks to a break in the wintry weather, copies for the engravers arrived at TIME'S three printing plants on schedule...