Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugh L. Cooper & Co.-building a vast power system (to be larger than the Muscle Shoals scheme) in Dniep-rostroy, Ukraine...
...Motive: To enable typewriters to blend with the color scheme of office, library, or livingroom...
...however, now materializing a scheme," declared M. Maurois, "modelled on your colleges and the English ones. This is the Cite Universitaire, or 'university town', an adjunct to the Sorbonne in the form of dormifories, clubhouses, and campus, now being constructed on the outskirts of Paris...
This project, like its sister scheme of a Franco-English tunnel under the Channel, has long been mooted. According to U. S. engineers, it would be "child's play" to build it, owing chiefly to favorable submarine conditions, cheap electrical power for boring and a plentiful supply of skilled labor...
That's our scheme of getting around the non-scouting agreement...