Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is an emotion of mixed awe and delight at his inventions that keeps the eyes of every scientist naive and young. Three amiable groups in three separate homes in Schenectady, N. Y. were so moved last week. A few blocks away in a research laboratory of the General Electric Co. a fourth group tingled sympathetically. In the laboratory was a television sending set; in the homes were television receiving sets. In the laboratory broadcasters moved, talked, sang, and in regimented waves their actions and sounds gambolled over the radio to the sight & hearing of the home audiences. Television, last...
...Hopkins removed his spectacles and wiped them clean of imperceptible dust. Ecomiums can be embarrassing and he had just received a $195,000 nugget of them from President Francis Patrick Garvan of the Chemical Foundation. The money was of course not for Professor Abel himself. It was to finance research on the cause of the common cold. But in giving the sum to the School of Hygiene & Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Garvan had insisted that the fund be called "The John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold." To that insistence he added: "In asking...
These distinctive early Americans precede the cliff-dwellers of the southwest even. Little is known of them, but the research work is increasing in magnitude. The expedition which returned with the mummies was the first of its kind in connection with the Rasket Weavers, but Dr. Gale will study these mummies next summer concentrating on thyroid glands...
...scholarship enabling a member of the Circolo Italiano who must also be a worthy student, to study and carry on research in an Italian university, during the academic year of 1928-1929, has been offered by the Circolo Italiano...
Among the new appointments at the Museum are: Ludlow Griscom, A.M., formerly with the American Museum of National History, research collector in zoology; Frederic H. Kennard '08, and Arthur C. Bent '89, associates in ornithology; Henry C. Stetson '23, A.M. '26, assistant curator of paleontology...