Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students of the Business School and any others interested in Economics have been offered a prize of five thousand dollars, to be given by the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research for the best adverse criticism of a book "Profits," by William Trufant Foster '01 and Waddill Catchings...
From the tombs of the great are gone the isolation of yesterday. The gentlemen of science have now usurped the avocation of Jerry Cruncher and his friends. Better it is for a man to die unknown, unpraised, than to risk perpetuity in a museum of cadavers. Modern research, ill content with probing the affairs of life, probes death. So this boy who once ruled Egypt must stand inspection before a maudlin world, while from far and near come novelty seekers aspiring to gaze for a moment at the death masque of the Pharaoh. Shavian and eternal, the child king suffers...
...years ago rode in buggies often pulled by old grey mares that were not what they used to be. Since doctors have taken to riding in buggies with a mechanical put-put, they themselves are not what they used to be, declared Dr. Joshua Sweet, Professor of Surgical Research at the University of Pennsylvania, addressing a congress of Railway Surgeons in Manhattan last week. Said...
From India through Java, Australia and Africa, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the U. S. National Museum, scouted out new fields for scientific research. Returning last month to Washington, he reported several new species of fossil big apes in Siwalik Hills (Burma); a new place to dig in the Solo Valley, stamping ground of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman; two new cave men's skeletons from the Broken Hill country in Rhodesia, South Africa, source of the famed Taungs skull...
...planned to supplement by others of a similar nature. Among the other organizations under whose auspices the series of meetings is being organized, are the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the Society for Mental Hygiene, the Retail Trade Board of Boston, the Society of Industrial Engineers and the Manufacturers' Research Association...