Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobel Prize in 1919 for his discovery of the "Stark effect" (splitting of spectrum lines when a glowing gas is subjected to a strong electrical field), and his studies of "canal rays" (beams of positively charged particles passing through apertures in an electrode). In the British Journal Nature last week, Dr. Stark published a thoroughgoing manifesto entitled "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics." His points...
...Mayor Hague won by the simple expedient of jampacking Jersey City's Journal Square, where Messrs. O'Connell and Bernard were scheduled to lambaste Hagueism, with loyal Hague followers. This convinced the crusaders they had best stay away...
...women of the western world were not religious, parsons, church mice and a small minority of men would have the churches pretty much to themselves. Last week the Ladies' Home Journal monthly survey reported upon what 37,000,000 U. S. women think about religion. Only 47% of them attend church regularly, although 76% are church members. Of Roman Catholic women, 85% are regular churchgoers. Of Protestant women, 54% actually go to church-a percentage which, even allowing for U. S. Protestant men who do not attend church, is somewhat higher than Statistician Roger Ward Babson's estimate...
...examined without a major "exploratory" operation, which is usually dangerous, occasionally fatal. Yet this simple method, called peritoneoscopy. was developed 37 years ago by Dr. Georg Kelling of Dresden, was neatly perfected four years ago by Dr. John Carroll Ruddock of Los Angeles. Last fortnight the New England Journal of Medicine printed an article on this useful subject, by Boston's Dr. Edward Benson Benedict, whose experience confirmed Dr. Ruddock's-that with a peritoneoscope he can make an accurate diagnosis of ailments within the abdomen in almost every case, whereas clinical diagnosis scores only 64%. However, peritoneoscopists...
Public Service. A $500 gold medal was awarded to the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune for its news reports and editorials which started a movement for self-help among victims of the dust bowl. To the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal went a special bronze plaque for leadership in defense of a free press in the Province of Alberta...