Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amatenrs, long encouraged by College Observatory officialdom, also found themselves in great demand in war activities, especially in the fabrication work on optical parts. Also, every key man in Barker's Observatory Optical Project was originally an amateur telescope maker...
Event the best talent must fall short when spread as thinly as this. Perhaps the greatest inadequacy lies in the division of international relations, where only a vast expansion in personnel and budget will equip the proposed regional government-studies project. Here the University has fallen into a secondary position while Columbia and Cornell have added this vital training to their curricula. Men who attempt to draw any sort of preparation for the Foreign Service or other overseas opportunities find this gap in their undergraduate studies a definite obstacle...
...slaves from Africa in 1509, now has the world's highest incidence of yaws. Since 1943 the U.S. Sanitary Mission, backed by $150,000 from the State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs and an equal amount from the Haitian Government, has worked hard on a project to eradicate the disease in selected districts of southern Haiti...
...built big houses for movie stars and executives at $25,000 to $100,000 each (Trousdale now lives in an English-Colonial house he built for Deanna Durbin, later bought back), switched to building small houses in large projects when war came. On each project, he and his stockholders put up the money to cover the cost of real estate, got Bank of America loans to cover all construction costs, had little trouble getting materials by his cash-on-the-line policy. Like most builders he formed a new corporation for each project, dissolved it when the project was finished...
...most grandiose literary project of a generation, introduced to the U.S. public more than a dozen years ago (TIME, June 5, 1933), Men of Good Will has been admired from a safe distance by many, praised to the skies by a few, actually read in its entirety by still fewer. It stands as a monument to the almost incredible industry and endurance of Novelist Romains and his readers. A vast, inchoate panorama, as broad as all Europe and 25 years long, its net effect is more nearly that of a giant notebook than of a novel...