Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student is Oberlin College's lanky, 20-year-old, bespectacled Kenji Okuda. Son of a former Seattle expressman, he was raised as a Protestant, stood second in his high-school class of 500. At the University of Washington he was Y.M.C.A. vice president. Hustled into a Colorado relocation project (his parents are still there) after Pearl Harbor, he was released early this year. At Oberlin, Kenji heeled the college paper, made a hit, became student-council president. Declared the paper: "He was elected primarily on the basis of merit. ... A lesser point...
...past two years. And now, says Aviation Assistant Burden, in cautious language: "The airplane promises to give Latin America a semblance of physical unity by overcoming the formidable geographical barriers which have divided it from time immemorial. . . . The airplane promises to open up this huge area rapidly. . . . The project is comparable in magnitude to the opening of our own West...
...Perhaps Francis Spellman had talked over the project of a Catholic Federation of Central Europe with envoys in Rome and Ankara...
Policy for Plenty. View the world as a challenge to investment, a challenge to the American sense of project and the frontier, and the outlines of the postwar money problem assume a definite shape...
...houses that would come in packages, factory-built "bubble" houses looking like brimless derbies. Prefabrication has been steadily bedeviled by technicalities, the economics of production, building trades' obstructionism, public unconcern. But every once in a while poor, young prefabrication makes news. Last week the Government approved another prefabrication project for defense housing (it had already approved 40 others). The designers: U.S. Architect Paul Lester Wiener, Spain's Town Planner José Luis Sert...