Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this project 140 men were originally recommended, and 110 invited to join the group, Poskanzer said yesterday...
...whose privilege it is to carry on the research which one of the world's greatest astronomers inaugurated when he was a young University of Chicago professor, record our disappointment and surprise that George Ellery Rale's great part in originating and developing the 200-inch telescope project was not highlighted in the otherwise splendid tribute which your recent issue paid to Dr. Edwin Hubble and his associates...
Successor to Darwin? Sexologist Wilfred C. Kinsey was not taken aback by the uproar. He had predicted three years ago that his book might sell a million copies (all royalties would go back into the project). Journeymen book reviewers took a quick look and promptly hailed Kinsey as one of the greatest scientists since Darwin. He appeared to have found that some 85% of U.S. men have premarital intercourse, nearly 70% have intercourse with prostitutes, between 30% and 45% have extra-marital intercourse and 37% have some kind of homosexual experience...
...Harold C. Urey, director of the War Research Atomic Bomb Project (1940-45), got right to the point. The U.N., he declared, is "one of the most inadequate organizations for the enormous problems before it that could possibly be devised...
While the Committee was planning its own rally, literature and handbills were dispatched to the 17 other colleges in the project. The actual program gets under way today at M.I.T., where William Clayton, former assistant secretary of State, will address the week's first rally...