Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legislative Hobbies: A resolution authorizing the Government to undertake extensive research in the cause and cure of cancer ("Millions are spent on hog diseases, why not a few on people?"); a bill to place Mexicans and other Latin Americans under the immigration quota, so that they can no longer freely enter...
Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, famed Russian physiologist, author of Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, refused an official celebration of his 80th birthday at Leningrad. Reason: Physiologist Pavlov is no friend of Communism. Said he, "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb...
...iron when they are hard, flexible, rust and corrosion-resisting are vastly important to modern civilization. To discover new and better alloys, to manufacture the known and useful ones is a paramount concern of such great companies as Central Alloy Steel Corp., Ludlum Steel Company, Krupp. But their research and manufacture are for their particular business. Man may enjoy the benefits thereof but the company of course profits by the company's knowledge. Last week, however, the Engineering Foundation initiated a fiveyear, non profit-making research program into alloys of iron. Its purpose: to provide a reservoir of scientific...
...able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting engineers for American Water Works & Electric Co. Probably unconscious of the virtual homonym, Water Works Engineer Porter chose as head of the foundation's research committee George Booker Waterhouse, M. I. T. professor of metallurgy...
...Kohier is chairman of the departments of philosphy and psychology at the University of Berlin where he founded the Gestelt School. More by necessity than choice, Dr. Kohier took up the psychological study of apes. It was while he was interned on the Canary Islands that he did the research work in ape-study which resulted in the publication of his book...