Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fruitful Project. In Costa Rica, Pan American Highway engineers, quartered on a pineapple plantation, ordered food from home, got a carload of canned pineapple...
Preparing to launch its study of atomic energy, Associated Universities, Inc., the newly-formed group of nine eastern universities, has chosen Edward Reynolds '15, Vice-President of Harvard, as its first president, it was announced by Major General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Army's Manhattan Project for atomic development, last Friday...
...organization, consisting of Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, M.I.T., Pensylvania, Princeton, Rochester, and Yale, will operate, under a contract with the government, the new Northeast National Laboratory project for research in nuclear physics and investigation on the applications of atomic energy...
Northeast National Laboratory is one of three atomic research projects planned by the War Department. The second, the Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago, is already in operation, and a third will be selected in the Far West at a future date. Part of the Clinton Engineering Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn., will also be used in the research project...
Last week U.S. scientists were busy at the long-neglected job. Using one of the most elaborate collections of paraphernalia ever assembled-planes, radar, cameras, raindrop measurers, recording devices in great variety-the Army Air Forces, Navy and U.S. Weather Bureau had launched a project to find out all that man can know about a storm, from its fleecy birth to crescendo climax. Because thunderstorms are flying's greatest hazard, the investigators hope their study will develop reliable methods of recognizing and avoiding dangerous types of cloud...