Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoes that pinched them show themselves in this picture as the very competent actors they always were: there has seldom been as good a cinematic gallery of U.S. small-town types. Grace George seems effortlessly to have learned what so many transplanted Broadway actors ache over -how to project her touching elegance in a medium...
...should roll impressively off the tongue: "American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East and principal American Civilian Representative at the Middle East Supply Center, with the personal rank of Minister." His job: to strengthen the U.S. management of the Middle East Supply Center, a joint U.S.-British project which routes civilian supplies to some 80 million friendly peoples in the area...
Committee Meetings. Photographs of the Lusitania project kept appearing in Irish, English and U.S. newspapers. To be sure, the designs appeared to keep changing, but Jerome Connor would from time to time cross to New York and hold explanatory conferences with the memorial committee. Now it was the graceful announcement of a postponement. Now it was the equally graceful revelation of a new date for the unveiling. When the date arrived, however, Jerome Connor had usually volatilized again...
John W. Ellison '44, who headed the council subcommittee on the food investigation declared last night that although the project received "some unfavorable newspaper publicity," it got the "popular support" of most of the people concerned at the College...
...Ready? Merely to read these powers and restrictions, and project them in imagination on a world scale, is to make it clear that the U.S. citizen is far from ready for anything remotely resembling a federated world government...