Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various departments and bureaus were set up by law, it requires another law to rearrange and simplify them. There is one exception. The Act creating the Department of Commerce gave the President authority to transfer to it other agencies of the Government engaged in statistical work, in research or in work connected directly with commerce...
...avoid duplication of labor," said he. Heretofore the Bureau and the Department has each 1) maintained a service in domestic and foreign distribution of mining products, 2) collected statistics on mineral production, 3) collected statistics on production of explosives, 4) tested the strength of wire rope, 5) conducted research into the uses of mineral raw materials in manufacture, 6) carried on research into petroleum products, 7) conducted research into the use of raw materials in porcelain manufacture, 8) made fuel tests...
Last week, the University of Chicago acknowledged the receipt of a new medical research foundation. Some $800,000 in securities had already been turned over, with a promise of $200,000 more in short order, by one Mr. Douglas Smith of Chicago. Mr. Smith is not a doctor, nor is he an invalid to whom the advancement of medicine would have had a special and intimate interest. A hale, hearty, portly man, much given to golf, a familiar in North Shore society, Mr. Smith is by profession a promoter. Yet it was a most appropriate thing for Mr. Smith...
...likely to be much easier to procure an appropriation of five thousand dollars in order to paint a building which is in no great need of paint, than to get authority to spend five hundred dollars upon a rare and costly book which is only needed for scholarly research. It is significant that those who rule our universities sometimes actually think and speak of them after the manner of business enterprises...
This article describing the research work to be done by Professor Grinnell Jones G. '05 with his Milton Award is the fifth of a series appearing in the Crimson...