Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last summer the East Coast oil shortage changed everything, including Senator Bridges' mind. As a cheaper barge canal, the project squeaked through Congress with the aid of votes from Eastern Republicans with about-to-be-cold constituents and Midwestern Democrats with about-to-be-curtailed oil and gas production...
With this issue, the Crimson begins a series of articles on post-war problems and planning by outstanding authorities on the tasks that will beset the peace commission. Basic to this project is the assumption of ultimate United Nations' victory. Equally fundamental is the assumption that planning for peace while war still rages is justifiable. It is true that, while the issue is undecided and post-war conditions may only be visualized, planning for the peace may only be tentative since it will lack the stamp of reality. What can be done is the focusing of public opinion upon...
...military information on the U. S. S. R. They were arrested in August, 1941, and convicted on these charges. However, under the terms of a friendship pact signed between Russia and Poland, they were released. Provided with Red Cross funds, the two organized a Polish relief committee. Using this project as a front, they began distributing leaflets attacking the Soviet government and urging a separate peace between Russia and Nazi Germany. This transpired at the time when the fate of the United Nations hinged on the Battle of Stalingrad. Consequently Ehrlich and Alter were again brought to trial, convicted...
Weismiller's project, "Creative writing in the field of poetry" will succeed his earlier work in that field which included a volume of verse published in 1936; "The Deer Come Down." Miss Edinger, famous for her articles published in German, French, and English, is a refugee scholar and will discuss the tooth replacement in Amphibia and Reptilia. Nabokov was born in Russia and is a scientist as well as novelist, his most recent novel being "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight...
When the director of the Tonanzintla project, Luis Enrique Erro, was first secretary of the Mexican embassy in Washington a decade ago, he had astronomy as his hobby. He made frequent trips to Cambridge to see the Observatory and under the tutelage of is director. Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Practical Astronomy, he became an active amateur observer...