Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passage from India, four "Red Sindhi" cattle-two bulls, two cows-chewed their cuds last week in a New Jersey cow barn. They were the first Indian cattle to enter the U.S. since 1924. When sufficiently rested from a plane-ship-plane journey, they would start a major breeding project: begetting cows to bulge with milk on the humid, hot Gulf Coast...
Richard West '48, well-versed in Cambridge lore, conducts the tours. Dean Hanford commended the project at the meeting for new Freshmen and returning students in sanders Theatre Friday evening...
...report spared no one. Its first bad example was an old favorite: the $135,000,000 Canol oil pipeline project in Canada and Alaska. The report charged that Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell Army Supply Chief, had ordered the pipeline built on the basis of a "wholly inadequate study" and had continued its construction in "disregard of repeated warnings by experts." Then it laid into Fleet Admiral Ernest King. He had "used the high office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the claim of military secrecy for the purpose of preventing the Congress and the people from discontinuing...
Szyk, a round, bouncy little man with thin brown hair and thick glasses, thinks his most interesting project was the 38 miniatures of George Washington and His Times, which he finished in 1935. The set was presented to President Roosevelt by the Polish Government, and today hangs in Hyde Park. But the assignment Szyk enjoyed most was in 1924, when he was hired to paint El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakesh, Morocco. Sighs Szyk: "There were gazelles in the garden and dances of the bosom every night...
Young (37) Asa S. Knowles, president of the three jerry-built schools, announced that he could handle some 8,800 freshmen right away (including out-of-staters, married students and non-vets). So far though his project had been publicized throughout the state-only 6,000 inquiries had been received, and only 1,500 students have been enrolled. Last week New York State took to the radio to advertise for students...