Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Kentucky employs a plumber. That plumber is also a chemist. He has been doing research work at the University in mining and metallurgy. He is 32-year-old Harry McClane. Last week he announced the discovery of an alloy. He claims for it that it is only slightly heavier than aluminum, much lighter than brass or iron, that it will withstand a pressure of more than 50 tons to the square inch, that it does not corrode, that earth acids do not affect it, that it takes a polish like silver, and that it can be manufactured...
...within a few weeks and in many journals contented professors will reply. But can they--with candor? The shoes Mr. Sherman mentions are old, the C-men many. Yet the real professor, a fellow of research, a leader of youth, though he must dislike the old shoes, likes the C-men. For by sincere effort he can make them "B" men--if not in college, at least in life. His calling is hard. The need of improving it remains the ghost in American academic closets. But if he is a true teacher he will enjoy it--enjoy it far more...
...influenced no doubt by his own life work, Professor Davis qualifies the second of his suggestions by insisting that it comprise a liaison between the colleges and such social endeavors as the Collegiate Industrial Research Movement. By such a means does he believe that academic interests can be vitalized sufficiently to share with extra-curricular activities in the attention of the average student...
Drug. Sufferers from paresis resulting from syphilitic infection may be cured, said Professor A. S. Loevenhart of the University of Wisconsin. Using tryparsamide (an arsenical drug first compounded by the workers of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research and found to be effective in curing sleeping sickness), he restored to their right minds one-third of all the grey-faced, twitching paresis victims upon whom he experimented...
...scholarly research in science, economics, history, literature, and the training of specialists, experts, or teachers of particular subjects...