Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prince Takahrto Mikasa, athletic youngest brother of Hirohito, toyed with a project he hoped to realize "as soon as it is permitted." Now 30 and a husband & father, the Prince wants to go to college...
Laski's wild statement was promptly and properly ridiculed in Washington by General Leslie R. Groves, military head of the Manhattan Project. But Groves did not say exactly how wrong the Professor had been, nor did he deny that a better bomb was cooking...
...comforted its people, "the great Kapitza will build you a bomb in no time." According to Russian reports and rumors, he was buzzing around like a June bug, supervising the building of cyclotrons, studying cosmic rays, taking full scientific charge of the Soviet's own Manhattan (or Moscow) Project. Generalissimo Stalin was said to have called him into his presence and offered him everything he needed...
While the University authorities have acknowledged the problem, their attention has resulted in a make-do policy that will look good on the financial balance sheets, but will pale beside the efforts of other colleges. Harvard's record consists of importing 198 second-hand government units from a Maine project, setting these dwellings up on three areas adjacent to the University, and running them in conjunction with the government. Realizing the drop-in-bucket inadequacy of this effort, an administrative committee is quietly searching out the alumni and local realtors for vacant apartment buildings and hotels and is further conducting...
University Hall points to the financial outlay involved in private construction, and admittedly any sizable project is expensive. But it is difficult to reason why M.I.T., with a housing shortage much less severe than Harvard's, has gone straight into the construction business and has erected 100 units of its own, which will supplement any windfall housing donated by the government. It is even more difficult to imagine that a comparison of the financial positions of the respective institutions would effectively explain why one is looking for more units, while the other has the land and bargains, Fabian-like, with...