Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evil Thing." He was to explain later to the House Un-American Activities Committee how Marxism could appeal not only to the bitter young intellectual but to more or less sheltered middle-class persons as well. They were attracted, he said, "by the very vigor of the project." They felt "a great intellectual concern-an almost Christian concern-for the underprivileged, for economic crises, for the problem of war. They say: 'What shall I do?' At that crossroad the evil thing, Communism, lies in wait with a simple answer...
...Guggenheim centers will not build bigger & better jet engines, nor even try to. Their job will be to push into unknown regions where the jet engineers of the future may want to follow. One project at Princeton will be the study of air behavior at "hypersonic" speeds-above Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). When wind tunnels are forced to this speed, and a few of them can be, they hit a fantastic difficulty. The air expands and gets so cold that its oxygen and nitrogen condense into liquids. Princeton will study this disturbing phenomenon...
Specifically, Fisher was criticized for apparently acting for the HYRC on the issue of a proposed NSA Displaced Persons project...
...said his subsequent votes against Harvard participation in the DP project had a "50-50" motivation. First, he believed that the HYRC Planning Committee opposed the plan. Second, he believed that "older people in the NSA"--such as Lawrence Jaffa 2Dv and Charles Mahoney of Boston University--wanted to take another project, the Tri-Nations Tour, out of the hands of the Smith College delegation. Fisher said these people felt the Smith group was dominated by communist sympathizers...
Research on this project began in July, 1947, under Drs. Bertram Selver-stone and William H. Sweet of Massachusetts General Hospital...