Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a big project required big preparations. The interesting experiment will not take place before next spring...
...Price of Persistence. As Davis got more & more abstract, he found his paintings harder to sell. For five years he earned $21 a week on a WPA art project. Today, at 50, his persistence is beginning to pay off. Critics have come to consider him one of the most powerful pioneers of modern art in the U.S. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was showing the first retrospective exhibition of Stuart Davis' paintings since...
Returning from the site of the Manhattan Project development at Los Alamos, the Harvard Cyclotron is coming back to a new building which will be constructed specifically to house it. Pre-war researchers built the Cyclotron at the Gordon McKay Engineering Laboratories in 1938, The tremendous energies necessary in the atom-smashing experiments gave the scientists early indication of the fantastic powers locked in the nucleus of the atom...
...colleagues described Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Los Alamos branch of the atomic bomb's Manhattan Project, as "the smartest of the lot." Last week, just before he resigned to go back to teaching physics, tough-minded, 41-year-old Dr. Oppenheimer made the smartest statement of all the scientists who were cautioning Congress to watch its atomic step...
Fighting raged on through Caracas' steep, narrow streets the next day. Pro-Government Communists broke into a local barracks, appropriated guns and uniforms. From a new, six-story housing project they attacked the rebels. Loyal cavalry joined the assault. But rebel planes, swooping low to drop bombs squarely on the attackers, settled the issue...