Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public Works program. He was beset by fixers, agents, Congressmen. As well as he could-and he got pretty good at it-he repelled them. ("We have battled, toe to toe, with the avaricious and ruthless.") He presided with belligerent honesty over the Grand Coulee project, Boulder Dam, a vast $13,000,000 building to house his 4,686 Interior Department employes...
Some civilian scientists were flatly calling the project a put-up job. (Said one: "It's a ridiculous test. The Navy men will prove either that our Navy is safe from attack or that we need a new Navy.") Others asked suspiciously: why was the Navy planning to use the old, outmoded Nagasaki model, instead of an improved bomb now possible...
...first Holiday over, Curtis last week was already deep in another postwar project, masterminded by Manhattan Adman Ted Patrick. Its name, if any, was a secret, but not its purpose: to put out a LIFE-like magazine...
...town, the City Council has temporarily withheld its final decision on the two propositions, which would allow the City of Cambridge to rent the land at $1 per annum for five-year temporary housing or might instead give the University a green light on a permanent real estate project...
Catholic scholars outlined last week another great project in religious translation: a 72-volume edition of the writings of the early Church Fathers-including a number of texts never available in English. The edition will include major works of such early molders of Christian doctrine as Tertullian, Origen, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine and Chrysostom, down to Gregory the Great of the 6th Century. The seven-year task will be guided by Dr. Ludwig Schopp, editor and publisher of Traditio, an annual volume of learned essays, who has enlisted the aid of most U.S. Catholic authorities on the language, history and theology...