Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese have to do in future operations," said Tokyo solemnly, "is to project their indomitable spirit at the enemy and they will suffer internal fear that will defeat them before they get into the fight." Steeped in "thought control," the wartime Japanese apparently never question such spiritual balderdash...
...when several officers' wives at the Navy Supply Corps School organized the Navy Relief Sewing Circle, $3459 has been raised for Navy Relief through dances sponsored by the group for personnel of the School. Mrs. Kenneth C. McIntosh, wife of the Commandant of the school, originated the project and has seen the profit of the dances grow from an original income of $153 to over $838 at a recent affair in Potter Hall on October...
Both airmen and ornithologists think that bird collisions may have been responsible for some unsolved air disasters. The bird-bumping problem is becoming So troublesome that airlines rate the Civil Aeronautics Administration's windshield-strengthening experiments (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) as the most urgent present research project...
...interested citizen could become a Doctor of Philosophy in psychology. For $800 the New York College of Psychiatry would put him through a course leading to a doctorate of science. Head of this low-cost educational project-an extension of both Los Angeles University's College of Psychiatry and Golden State University of Los Angeles-was curly-haired, thoughtful-looking, 24-year-old, self-styled "Vice Dean" George William Manus. His sideburns and the drape of his chalk-stripe suit were sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics...
With the expressed purpose of developing a program through which the farmers of the Commonwealth can be of maximum assistance in solving the employment problems of the State during demobilization, the Subcommittee states that an important part of the project must be "making agriculture attractive enough physically, financially, and socially so that young people of the proper sort may be encouraged to enter...