Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trains that U. S. transportation is requiring. X-rayed Metals. Use X-rays for detecting blowholes, pinholes, porosity, shrinks and refractory and other foreign matter in metal castings, particularly those made of aluminum, urged W. L. Fink and Robert Samuel Archer of Aluminum Co. of America's Cleveland Research Laboratories. Using the X-rays immediately after the first pours into the molds will quickly show if the "mix" is incorrect or if cores, patterns, risers or chills must be modified...
...president of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends. The residue goes "for educational research work in chemistry...
...Johns Hopkins and the late Provost Edgar Fahs Smith of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Garvan could not travel to Minneapolis from Manhattan because "three years ago I broke down. Some say that breakdown was the result of my endeavors to establish independent and sufficient chemical education, chemical research and chemical industries in America. . . ." This apology and the rest of Mr. Garvan's "random thoughts of a lay chemist," Professor Julius Oscar Stieglitz of the University of Chicago read for absent Mr. Garvan...
...this frontier of the unknown! If there were no teachers anywhere to be found, then let young pioneers train themselves as teachers. If there was no teaching material in print, then it must be quarried out of the mine of current business practice and a Bureau of Business Research must be created. If no case books had yet been collected, business men could be induced by the persuasion of Mr. A. W. Shaw to exhibit themselves and their troubles as clinical material--walking cases. In the meantime, teaching of the established type could go on in the subjects that already...
Racial Equalities. Although the U. S. immigration furor over better racial stocks has subsided, interest in racial superiorities continues. National Research Council's Otto Klineberg found slight differences in the intelligence ratings of German, French and Italian children (Nordics, Alpines, Mediterraneans). City children of the three types were smarter than the corresponding country children. Nor did Vanderbilt University's Lyle Hicks Lanier find sharp differences between Negro and white children, or New Zealand's I. L. G. Suther- land between primitive (Maori) and civilized adults...