Word: projective
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...twin pincers of the Southern organizing drives by the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. clamped on a major target. Moving through the rolling green hills of East Tennessee, both closed in hungrily on the 59,000-acre Oak Ridge atomic-bomb project...
...Evan Shute did not forget it. Last summer, when a colleague asked him to suggest a research project for a bright young medical student, Floyd Skelton, Shute suggested tests for the effectiveness of vitamin E against hemorrhage. At the University of Western Ontario Skelton set to work on his class-free Saturday afternoons, with a modest grant of $150 and laboratory privileges from his alma mater. He soon discovered that dogs given stiff jolts of vitamin E would not have hemorrhages...
...Boss Bill Paley and his two new vice presidents, Edward R. Murrow and Davidson Taylor, conceived Operation Crossroads while chinning about their European wartime experiences. They assigned the project to a 32-year-old producer, Robert Lewis Shayon (rhymes with play-on). To find what the nation was thinking, CBS began a public-opinion survey last December. Shayon talked with scientists, military experts, Government leaders. Then he sponged up everything he could about atomic energy...
...were laid by the University involving the construction of a full-scale housing development of such sites as the Observatory and in the Botanical Gardens. After this idea had been juggled around between the University and the City of Cambridge, which had zoning laws on the properties concerned, the project was dropped--ostensibly so the University could formulate new and better plans...
Like Harvard, Dartmouth has been expending most of its efforts on getting the married students a place to live; two developments are presently under way in Hanover. One, known as Sachem Village, is a permanent project, comprising 48 double family houses, while the other; called Wigwam Circle, consists of FPHA units brought from defense plant areas and set up in a circle...