Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper in the U.S. rarely uses up space to talk about itself. Recently the New York Times took two-thirds of a column to report how the American press is spending over $50 million on plant expansion. But the Times spared only two lines to tell about the biggest project of all, its own $6,000,000 rebuilding...
...author, who signs himself "One of Them," claims to be a scientist who has worked on a military project...
...University of California's Max Radin, 68, law teacher, Brandeisian philosopher and historian of the law, biographer of Marcus Brutus, indefatigable author of legal books and articles (a WPA project was once assigned to catalogue them all). A first-name friend of U.S. Supreme Court justices, Radin was nominated to the California Supreme Court in 1940, but the commission on judges turned him down (he had spoken out for Tom Mooney and Sacco & Vanzetti...
...Named after the late Dr. George Ellery Hale, founder of Mt. Wilson Observatory, who started the 200-inch telescope project. He died...
...Kubie stuck a scalpel into the heart of Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's whole project: the interviews. Kinsey and his coworkers, he said, give human memory a precision it does not have; "they recognize that we can 'forget,' but not that we can 'misremember.'" For instance, he said, the book seriously discusses sexual experiences recollected from early childhood without taking into account all the forces, like dreams, that can distort children's memories...