Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Research Corporation of America, making money from a process of electrical precipitation, but contributing all its earnings to the advancement of science, announced that John J. Abel has done more than any other scientist to promote human enjoyment of life; awarded...
...part of his mature life to investigation of the sources of our English vocabulary, having change of that department in successive revision of Webster's Dictionary, now called the International. Into such study he carried that unusual blend of divination, balance, and minute discrimination which characterized both his linguistic research and his literary judgments. None was more original than he, none more rigidly selfenitical. Hence the enduring character of his achievement...
Greater efficiency and less waste he believes responsible, especially in railroading and the generation of electric power. He listed as factors in this improved condition: prohibition, use of business statistics, reduction of speculation, increased industrial research...
...requirements for eligibility are American citizenship, a working knowledge of German, ability to carry on work at a German university, which Implies at least two years in an American college or university, ability to pursue independent study and research, a health certificate, and good moral character and adaptability...
Statistics issued by the Mexican Bureau of Biological Research last week were declared to indicate a higher recorded infant mortality in Mexico City than anywhere else in the world...