Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Research Report...
During the week, School and Society (weekly) published parts of a research report from the University of Michigan, which contained suggestive findings for college-entrance authorities to ponder. It was not surprising to learn from this report that students who had done well in high school had done well in college, or to hear that "the bottom 20% [of the group studied] might have been barred from entering college to the profit of all concerned, including themselves." More disquieting was the fact that the descendants of American-born grandparents stood about half as well in their studies as descendants...
...together in better combinations of the ingredients. In Industry. The importance of chemistry in industry is now too obvious to need emphasis, but the delegates took special satisfaction in knowing that the huge U. S. Steel Corp. has lately organized a pure research department "of proper magnitude," with Professor John Johnston (from Yale) as active head and Director Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology as chief adviser, to study alloys. Game. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty of Manhattan proposed a game for undergraduate chemists-let them try to find new uses for the many strange derivations that analysts have...
...little known anthracite coal deposits of Rhode Island and Massachusetts will furnish local coal to New England this winter, said Arthur Dehon Little, Cambridge, Mass., research chemist last week. The New England anthracite is very difficult to burn and contains 33% ash. But after treating by the "Trent" process it can be made low in ash, free burning and smokeless...
...Bingham has visited and talked with all the principal Chinese leaders at the three chief seats of Chinese government: Peking, Nanking, Hankow. When the Senator emerged at Shanghai last week his mind held a panoramic picture of China in which each element was the prize of costly, hard-sought research...