Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rosen is permitted to go into gruesome detail because he is head of the Navy's Viking Rocket Project, and the Viking is not a military weapon but a research rocket for exploring the upper atmosphere...
...began in 1949 on the suggestion and $20,000 unsolicited donation of Eli Lilly of the Lilly Drug C. who had admired ideas in some of Sorokin's earlier books. At first scheduled to cover a five year project the Center's endowment has been constantly renewed by Lilly ever since President Conant converted the Center into an official adjunct of the university. After its organization Sorokin retired from his University duties and began to devote all his time to its program...
...later expanded into book form. Crescus, a 15th century Jewish philosopher, led him to Spinoza, first to a series of articles in the Chronicum Spinozarum and then to a two-volume work on Spinoza that was published in 1934. Already, however, he had begun to conceive of a grander project, a series of books on the "Structure and Growth of Philosophic Systems from Plato to Spinoza," of which a revised edition of his Spinoza work would from the terminal point. Working "backwards and sideways," he next published a two-volume work on Philo (in 1947), which are the second volumes...
...Widener Map Room had no part in the project and Map Room officials were not available for comment...
Charging Griswold with being "adversely interested in his project," Puente asserted that Griswold had been planning his own tax reports in conjunction with the U.N. since 1948, but had kept the fact hidden when the two men met in 1950 to discuss the project...