Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Commission, appointed by the President and Fellows of the University, is now undertaking detailed research work to determine the nature of the agencies which communicate infantile paralysis," said Mr. Pierce. "Raw milk is one of the few positively known means by which the disease is spread. To prevent this spreading, pasteurization should be employed. As for checking and curing the disease, Massachusetts and Vermont officials, cooperating with the Harvard Commission, believe they are on the road to success in abating infantile paralysis by the use of a serum made from the blood of human beings who have...
Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur refuted specific Magruder statements now and then as his subordinates furnished him with research. President Coolidge announced that he thought lots of officers and some extra equipment essential to the Navy's efficiency. Rear Admiral Magruder called on Secretary Wilbur, filed a belated copy of his published article and apologized for any embarrassment he might have caused the Navy...
...into European information mines produced the news which made possible the scornful iconography of his previous much-heralded work on Benjamin Franklin. From the same sources, he has gathered now for the life of a less intimate hero, the same casual, rapid style, a possibly less accurate body of research, but an even more engaging history...
...Alexander of Belfast, Ireland, and Dr. T. W. F. Brown of Ayr, Scotland, holders of the two Blair Fellowships for this year, will carry on the experiments. There are only two Blair Fellowships providing for a year of graduate research in Engineering in an American university, the holders of which are chosen from the whole British Empire. Alexander, a graduate of Cambridge University, and Brown, who graduated from the University of Glasgow, are both specializing in the same field, and have both been working on the same problem, that of perfecting diesel engines for airplane use. They will combine forces...
Professor Roorbach has just returned from a year in the Far East, where he studied economic conditions in Japan, China, the Dutch East Indies, the Malay States, Siam, India, and the Philippines. The year's work, which he has just completed, was sponsored by the Harvard Bureau of International Research, and the Business School...