Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw up rules of procedure for an Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, which is soon to be opened at Paris. Professor Sir Gilbert Murray, in the absence of M. Bergson, ill, was in the chair. Among those present: Senator Henri de Jouvenal (France), Dr. Vernon Kellogg of the National Research Council (U. S.), Prof. Albert Einstein (Germany), Senator Ruffini (Italy), Prof. Gonzague de Reynold (Switzerland), M. Destree (Belgium), Dr. Casares (Spain), Prof. de Halecki (Poland), ex-Premier Buero (Uruguay), Dr. Gastro (Brazil...
...Duchess of York, former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, opened at London an international conference of women engaged in scientific research. Lady Astor, beaming, was in the chair...
...some money. Gye liked Bullock and pretty soon Gye died. Having " faith in Bullock, he left him a legacy on the condition that he take the name of Gye. So Bullock became Gye. He studied at Edinburgh University under Dr. Bennett, a cancer expert. Then he began research. "For the last two years he hasn't had a holiday-Sundays, Christmas or any other...
Planning. In Germany, plans were reported maturing for the construction of a polar zeppelin at the famed Friedrichshafen works. An estimated budget of seven million gold marks ($1,750,000) for the whole trip was to be sought by the International Arctic Research & Exploration Society in levies upon Labor organizations, community poll taxes, children's pfennigs, taxes on theatre and cinema tickets...
...British Parliament returned to London, last week, to murmur about a serum treatment for tuberculosis which they had gone to Geneva to investigate-the invention of one Dr. Henry Spahlinger. On the streets of Geneva, they said, posters were displayed announcing the sale of Dr. Spahlinger's research station if his debts were not paid. Despite this, he has rejected an offer of ?250,000 for his serum from a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm, because he feared the serum would be exploited beyond the means of the poor. The medical M. P.'s reported that evidence had been referred...