Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Swedes dreamed of organizing an atomic cooperative among the Scandinavian countries. Sweden had uranium. Norway had heavy water and abundant electric energy. Denmark had Nobel Prizewinner Nils Bohr, one of the greatest living atom experts. Bohr had worked with the Manhattan Project, and no doubt knew many of its secrets. Swedish scientists stated emphatically that they were not interested in atomic bombs. Besides advancing pure science, they were aiming at industrial, technical, and medical uses of atomic energy...
...nuclear physicists heard wistfully about their untrammelled Swedish colleagues. Sweden, they mused last week, might be a fine place to work. Some of them thought that refugee scientists from Axis countries, who played so important a part in the Manhattan Project, might move on to Sweden in search of professional freedom. If they did, the little Scandinavian country might become an important factor in the world's atomic affairs...
...look behind the headlines into the actual-work of the Palestine Committee reveals a project which for its scope and precision, its humanity and yet its grasp of political facts, its economic common sense, its religious idealism is deserving of the utmost praise. The Committee looked at the plight of European Jews when it asked immediate admission of 100,000 to Palestine, but it recognized, too, the religious significance of the Holy Land to many peoples; it examined the economic importance and limitations of Palestine, but it also remembered the words of the original mandate and the faith placed...
...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced Tuesday that it has granted $204,000 to the Medical School to carry out a five-year research program in the field of filterable viruses. To be directed by Dr. J. Howard Mueller, professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, the project is part of a $1,235,700 plan recently approved by the foundation to stimulate research and education about poliomyelitis...
...main part of the work will be carried on in the department of Bacteriology and Immunology of the Medical School, but also cooperating in the project will be the department of Physical Chemistry, and the Pediatrics Department of the Children's Hospital in Boston...