Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here on a temporary appointment, finer, formerly with the London School of Economics, announced that he will be at Harvard all summer, and here in Cambridge next year. Although teaching at Wellesley, he is planning a research project to complete during that period...
...originator of Pepsi-Cola's public welfare policy is brisk, 49-year-old President Walter Staunton Mack Jr. Mr. Mack has long believed that industry owes and should pay more to the community than mere jobs. Says he: "This project is the newest expression of [that] basic philosophy...
...Biggest. On thin paper, the dam is the greatest waterpower project in the world, easily overshadowing the U.S.'s Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams, and Russia's Dnieprostroy. As projected, it will take six years and one billion dollars to build, will soar some 700 feet above its foundations, back up water for about 400 miles, and produce a staggering 10,000,000 kilowatts of electric power. It will control the floods that have devastated Central China, dry up disease-breeding lakes on the plains below the gorge, irrigate about 60 million acres, employ thousands, and, among other...
China will need the aid of U.S. money, resources, and engineering skill to complete its Yangtze project. But U.S. aid would not be pure altruism. Such a huge source of power would gradually alter much of China's backward economy, giving her a new capacity to repay the cost, and at the same time making her industries and people customers for U.S. electrical equipment...
...pointed out in these columns several weeks ago, the Grant Study's contribution to the knowledge of man is continuous, for the Study is an institution, not a project. Early this month, a book by Earnest Aa Hooton, professor of Anthropology, will make the first major summing-up of Grant Study experiments...