Word: projected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather to "instilled habits." "Fewer girls than boys get E's. Their average minimum level of conscientiousness is probably higher than the boys'," I. Bernard Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science, points out. "Whenever I've heard of someone spending a preposterous amount of time on some project like a paper, it has generally been a girl. For instance I read in the Confidential Guide that one girl said she worked for 52 hours on one of her Nat.Sci.3 papers...
...difference between boom and bust for Argentina's dollar-short wheat-beef economy. With a new "Operation Patagonia" and with massive infusions of foreign capital, President Arturo Frondizi has high hopes of unlocking the treasure house. He has already kicked off Operation Patagonia with a series of projects. One is a $149 million El Chocón hydroelectric project on the Limay River by a 27-firm British-French-Italian combine to provide 650,000 kw. of power, irrigate 250,000 acres of parched croplands. Another is a plan to exploit 200 million tons of 55.6%-grade iron...
...likely place to start drilling is north of Puerto Rico, where the deep ocean floor lies conveniently close to San Juan's harbor. The project's cost might be $20 million at most, or perhaps only $5,000,000. Nobody knows where the money will come from, but an AMSOC daydreamer is not easily discouraged...
...First Church of Christ Scientist in Berkeley, built to Maybeck's design in 1910, today ranks as a historical masterpiece. Within, it is a massive square room, spanned by two colossal, diagonal, arched timber beams. Outside, broad overhanging eaves, reminiscent of a Japanese temple, project over glass screen walls decorated with exuberant Gothic motifs. It might have proved a nightmare of clashing styles. But Maybeck took his cue from his materials and kept his eye on the site. As a result, the church appears to float from the surrounding hedges, ornamented by its own shadows and highlights and finished...
Last January Clutton-Brock left St. Faith's, moved on to work on an agricultural project in barren, lion-haunted Bechuanaland. But as soon as he and his wife returned to Southern Rhodesia in February for a vacation, he was arrested and held without trial under emergency laws prompted by the Nyasaland riots (TIME, March 9 et seq.). During his imprisonment, the Southern Rhodesian government offered freedom and free passage back to England if he would give up his Southern Rhodesian citizenship, but he refused...