Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date have been mostly articles, he is currently planning, together with Professor George Vernadsky of Yale, to write a comprehensive ten-volume history of Russia covering the country's entire development from early times to the present day. Vernadsky is writing the first six volumes of the monumental project while Karpovich is scheduled to do the the last four, which will cover the years from 1800 on. When completed, the work will be the most comprehensive history of Russia yet published in English...
...other devices, the lab produced the microwave early warning radar, the H2X that helped carry Dday, the SCR-584 for guiding fire against the buzz-bombs, and the ground control approach (G.C.A.) for landing aircraft. It revolutionized the relationship between government and science, set the pattern for the Manhattan Project...
Publicly, McCarthy did not regret the loss of his Shamrock. Said he: "You can always build other hotels." It was not all bombast; actually, the sum that he received was what he thought he needed to put over his newest project and perhaps make another fortune...
...Indian students could go a long way toward developing a person-to-person bond between America and Asia's largest democracy. When organizations next fall consider whether to support the Mutual Service Program, they should remember that real mutuality and real service are the keystones both of this project and of international understanding...
Over the summer, the committee will consider ways to raise approximately $3,000 per year, a sum which the Indian students hope to equal in order to support the project. The program will be a non-governmental attempt to achieve a closer relationship with Indian students, according to the four members of a planning committee which investigated the idea and called Wednesday's meeting...