Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, Jan. 28, describes a "staggeringly complex" and "technically audacious" scheme of the Russians, the Greater Volga Project, to raise the level of ancient seas and reverse the flow of rivers...
Davis concluded the meeting with a tribute to Rudolph H. Nichols, associate director of the Electro-Acoustics Laboratory, giving him credit for the excellent liason maintained by the two labs throughout the work on the project...
...appeared as the staunchest defender of the University's plan to build its own permanent homes. "Why take the land by eminent domain or rent it," he said "if Harvard will build better houses than we could, and if we shall also be able to collect taxes from their project...
...this working example of Christian unity, the vicar-minister said last week: "I can think of the whole community . . . and not feel that I'm poaching someone else's ground." Said Episcopal Bishop William Appleton Lawrence, father of the Ashfield project: "I heartily approve and enthusiastically endorse. . . . It's a good idea and significant in finding a solution to the problem of overchurched communities...
When the Warden heard about Prisoner Stiles's leisure-time project, he sent some Stiles drawings to nearby Mare Island naval base. The Navy offered tools and materials, later supplied a human guinea pig: 25-year-old Lieut. Howard Pollack, who had lost his right arm in the South Pacific campaign. Stiles, with Lieut. Pollack's cooperation, eventually developed an artificial hand which he claimed would tweeze, grip, poke, carry and press. A Stiles-equipped amputee might thus be able to bowl, play golf, pick up a pin, hold a cigaret, button his own sleeve...