Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military intelligence had become suspicious of Hiskey, found that he held a reserve commission in the Army, had him called up and sent to duty on the Canol project in the Yukon, where "he counted underwear." The committee recommended that Hiskey, his exwife, Marcia, Chapin, and the missing Adams be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit espionage...
Only a shortage of materials--a dubious situation according to Metcalf--could hold up the $3,000,000 project. Once the finishing touches are added, the 75,000 books which will fill the library stacks will be moved in during the two week Christmas recess...
...called traditional methods of producing grand opera and stage it in terms of the present-day American theater ... If it seemed better show business to project The Ride of the Valkyries' by means of a motion-picture machine than to do it with four girls on hobbyhorses, a motion-picture machine should be used...
...imperial patronage developed more than 20 rare varieties of wondrous beauty . . . Many old established residents . . . have kept up the cultivation of goldfish in their private pools. In my courtyard there are several dozen fish, including the rare Red Dragon-Eye and the Five-Flowered Phoenix ... If this ridiculous foreign project [DDT spraying] is carried out, it will mean the end of all Peiping's goldfish. Then what man will be able to sit under his peng on a warm summer day and study the gentle undulations of fins and tails? The very thought of these beautiful water creatures turning...
Roll Back the Sea never quite becomes either a dramatic novel or an authoritative document, though it has some of the quality of both. The characterizations of the engineers and contractors and dike workers are not in themselves of sufficient interest to carry the story, and the depersonalized project, impressive as an example of courage and tenacity, turned out in detail to be just hard work. But some of the processes of the water workers-especially the fascine workers, who lace brushwood mattresses to be spread like skin on the ocean floor, to prevent the channels from deepening-make absorbing...