Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their prospects go, the committee may congratulate themselves on their project. The four greatest football teams in America meeting for three inter-sectional games for the first real national championship would be a spectacle equaled in magnitude only by such commercial affairs as the world's series or a heavyweight championship bout. And, from the point of view of the one hundred and twenty thousand spectators, this plan would result in some magnificent football. The committee has secured the endorsement of such demigods of the game as Knute Rockne, Alonzo Stagg and Andy Smith. The prestige of these men, aided...
...gifts but also in the large number of gifts they secured from others. Mr. Vanderbilt's gift of the gymnasium and his final gift to complete the fund, are, however, by far the largest part of the fund and constitute the most generous recognition of the wisdom of the project and a most valuable aid to the Medical School...
Three Speeches. During the week, the most notable assembly speeches all bore upon the protocal: 1) Premier Paul Painleve of France asserted that his country had in no way abandoned the Protocol, expressed a strong desire to see it revived, and added, "no project for the maintenance of Peace will be effective unless it have root in the League." 2) Mr. Austen Chamberlain then again torpedoed the Protocol, in the name of Britain, declaring that it would act merely to punish and not to prevent "international crime" (i.e., War). He implied that Britain had a distrust for "elaborate schemes...
...been hoped to build a palace worthy of the Leauge of Nations with a magnificent watergate in memory of all the soldiers who were killed in the war. When it became apparent that the U.S would not enter the Leauge, the option had been allowed to elapse and the project was forgotten...
Engineer Cooper, who has for 14 years revolved his idea of riding the Old Man of the Sea and for four years studied the Fundy terrain, is prepared to finance his project without state or federal aid and to devote the rest of his life to its completion. It would cost over 75 millions, he figures. It would take 5,000 workmen five years. The sea walls necessary total over a mile in length and at to upper pool must be 70 ft. high. The power dam is 3,600 ft. To build in the concrete water gates, mountains...