Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegates: 1) Norman H. Davis, 48, Manhattanite, onetime (1919-20) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and (1920-21) Under Secretary of State; 2) John William O'Leary, 51, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.; 3) Dr. Alonzo Englebert Taylor, 56, Director of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University; 4) Dr. Julius Klein, 40, Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the U. S. Department of Commerce...
Recently the box came into the possession of the Psychical Research Society, a rather playful group of scientists including Sir Oliver Lodge. Respectful, they used no crowbar or ax. Resourceful, they peeked last week into the box with the aid of an Xray. Amused, they saw only the outlines of a horse pistol, dice box, skull, scissors, bead bag, pins, coins, rings, and what is believed to be the roll of a manuscript...
During recent years, Dr. Ives has been conducting extensive research in the field of electrical transmission of pictures. Instrumental in the development of airplane photography for the Signal Corps, he also distinguished himself by researches in light and color phenomena...
...review Mr. Lowes remarkable study at this particular time nor in this place. It does wish, however, to indicate the gratefulness with which "The Road to Xanadu" should be accepted by undergraduates of the university-undergraduates especially because they are the ones who are least likely to commend painstaking research and those who are quickest to dismiss anything scenting of long labor as being pedantical and therefore unworthy of enthuslastic praise. Here is a book which had its origin among dusty shelves but which by virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed into something very remote...
Professor Demos also will make France the centre of his travels during the coming year. While abroad he will do some research work in "Revolutionary and Social Philosophy", and expects to make several excursions through various sections of Europe. He will be replaced at Harvard during his absence by E. A. Burtt. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, who will lecture On "History of Philosophy from Copernicus to Kant", and will do some tutoring...