Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...received an A.B. degree in 1936, and a Ph.D. the following year, at the age of 20. From 1938 to 1941 he was a Junior Fellow here. He joined the faculty in 1947 as an associate professor after working during the War on the government's quinine research project. He became a full professor...
With such a decline from the initial enthusiasm for his project, curator Kuno Francke could never achieve his original aim of demonstrating the full development of German art from the Roman Empire to present times, as well as showing the relation of Scandinavian, Lowland, English, Swiss and American art to their Germanic influences. However, during the '20's and '30's the museum enjoyed the heyday of its activities, with a heavy schedule of exhibits, concerts, slide lectures, plays, book collections, sculpture and paintings, and even a children's art center in the basement...
...most destructive tool. One day in 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt. Nazi scientists, he said, might soon be able "to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium." "This requires action," F.D.R. said. Out of it came the Manhattan Project, and at last the atomic bomb...
Lamont tried a similar project last year which lasted for five weeks instead of the three this year...
BIGGEST CONVENTION HALL in the world, long a pet Chicago project, is now past the dream stage. After years of arguing about location and funds, the Illinois state legislature is almost certain to pass a bill creating a state authority to issue revenue bonds to build a $34 million hall, with a 60,000-seat capacity, on the site of Chicago's 1933 fair. Construction is expected to begin in about a year...