Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wood and Boren, who met when they worked in the same Manhattan advertising office, started the Life-Study Fellowship in 1939. Neither of them regular church goers, they tackled the project at first just as a spare-time avocation and bit of advertising research, to see how large a response they could get by using mailing lists. From mailing-list brokers they bought 100,000 names, circularized them, got between five and six thousand replies...
Helping their husbands in the Communications School the Navy Wives are now devoting several afternoons a week to making signal flags for instruction at the school. The flags will be put up on the walls so that the students can learn their meanings from the real article. This project, now well under way, will also serve the Naval Training School instructors by making flags for use in classes...
...present their most pressing task is a WPA-ish project of leveling off a vacant lot next to Mather Hall for the purpose of constructing a couple of volleyball courts and several horseshoe-pitching games. The ground is to be covered with a layer of cinders as soon as the leveling process is completed...
...However, it's not a device for sending messages back and forth," Chaffee said with an ambiguous smile, "it's more like Radar but isn't Radar." So Well-satisfied was the war Department with Chaffee's work that the contract for the project was renewed in July, and a staff of about 12 men is now doing the research work...
...This new project is a "leisure-time one," ASTP leaders said, and will be completed during the Unit's spare time; most of Wednesday afternoon was spent cutting weeds chopping trees, and removing stumps...