Word: projections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week could go orchid hunting in South American jungles river hunting in Tibet, spend a winter in a jampacked Eskimo igloo, or the rest of the summer trying to absorb a fraction of the facts packed into the new Guide to Alaska, latest of the Federal Writers' Project series...
...Workers on the same project, earning at different hourly rates, worked different hours. Confusion was inescapable when 53-hour carpenters, for example, had to be teamed with 121-hour common laborers...
...Bugs") Baer cracked: "Mutiny on the bounty.") He threatened arrest for anyone who sought to deprive others of WPA's benefits. He filled gaps in WPA's skilled ranks with qualified applicants from the city's home-relief lists, and by shifting skilled non-unionists from project to project. At the unionists he snorted: "If they'd all quit, we'd be tickled to death...
...wedged into the massive, domed Natural History Building, the Institution's principal monument. Function of the new gallery is primarily to house and exhibit art owned by the Government, including presumably the immense quantities lately accumulated by the Treasury and the Federal Art Project...
...have taken his fresh attack into a dozen important museums. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has adopted a policy of exhibiting industrial design, has added architecture. Most important of all, John Cotton Dana's social philosophy of art inspired the nation's first Federal Art Project through its director, Holger Cahill, who worked under Dana from...