Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfection, but because the peculiar atmospheric conditions of the last few weeks have prevented Professor Condit, for such is his title, from making a most ambitious long distance flight. Mr. Condit, who sees elevating possibilities in the study of chemistry, has constructed an ingenious, gas-filled contrivance, which will project him permanently into the ether. For his destination, he has chosen rather than the conventional mars or the moon, the planet Venus where conditions are more nearly like those on earth, and more favorable for Professor Condit, whose doctors do not advise too great a change of climate...
Republic and Trumbull became a probability. Republic stockholders ratified the project. Trumbull stockholders are yet to vote on it. Joined, they have assets of nearly $190,000,000, and capacity to pro- duce 1,900,000 tons of steel ingots yearly...
...tutoring schools, or increase in outside activities or absences. It thinks that everybody is "harder at work than when classes are in operation," that the Library is more used, and that the experiment promises to be a success when the marks come through on the examined results. The project interests us exceedingly and we hope that Harvard, finding it worth making a regular thing, may be followed by other colleges. Something of the sort might well be tried at Yale...
...repertoire. Carmen lingered on, endured several musty performances and snuffed out like the rest. For Carmen may have a handsome Don Jose, a swaggering Toreador, a wistful ingenue for Micaela, but if there is no soprano hot-blooded enough to ape an untamed gypsy and sufficiently magnetic to project her titillating arias across the footlights and into the far reaches of the theatre, Merimée's story becomes cheap and long-drawn, Bizet's tunes trite and shop-worn...
...place the bones of Christopher Columbus in a $4,000,000 memorial lighthouse. To erect the lighthouse in a park near Santo Domingo* already set aside by the Government of the Dominican Republic. To offer $50,000 in prizes for lighthouse designs. Such were details of a project announced, a fortnight ago, by the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union, at Washington. Already the Dominican Government has appropriated $300,000. The rest will be raised by general appeals throughout the Americas...