Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II, he served as Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, and as advisor to General Leslie Groves on the "Manhattan Project" which produced the atomic bomb. After the war, he served on the General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission, and as first Chairman of the National Science Foundation...
There are certain peculiar aspects to the program. The first is that the student is usually without supervision, once he has been accepted in the program. His Department, usually History or History and Literature, recommends him for the program on the basis of a suggested project of study which is paralleled by no course in the University. The Committee on Advanced Standing will usually accept the petition. All the student does from then on is up to him, and if he has many outside interests or three-time consuming courses, he may do nothing at all with his advanced standing...
Trottenberg said that the project will not involve the Houses at this time, but would not say whether the department will attempt to enforce the regulation there when removal of pictures from freshman dormitory walls is completed...
...largest British project of its kind tried in the last 50 years, the Atlas has taken Orton, his research assistant. Stanley Ellis, and six field workers through 200 different villages to question local citizens and record their speech. Their subjects are usually oldtimers who still speak their ancient dialects, and they are also apt to be men because the women tend to regard the dialects as strictly non-U. Each farmer might be asked as many as 1,267 questions, but the questions must be carefully worded. Should a researcher ask, "Where do you keep your cow?", the farmer might...
Satellites First. The first stage of military space flight after the earth-to-earth missiles will probably be an unmanned reconnaissance satellite. The peaceful, 212-lb. satellite of Project Vanguard will have no military value, but rocket motors exist that can put a much heavier satellite into a permanent orbit. If big enough, it could carry a telescope and a scanning device to send radio pictures of what it sees down to its sponsors. It might also report bursts of heat or light: signs that someone has exploded a nuclear charge or fired a large missile on the far side...