Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Copper and Brass Research Association has completed a survey on the building shortage in this country, of general interests to tenants, landlords, mortgage-holders. On Jan. 2, 1920, the shortage amounted to $10,750,000,000; and each year an additional amount of construction valued at sums starting at $3,000,000,000 and steadily increasing was likewise required to meet the normal growth of the country...
...Brien congratulates the Sons of the American Revolution and the Knights of Columbus, who have done their part. He now calls to the colors the shock troops of historical research the Elks, the American Legion, the Masons, and the Odd Fellows, ignoring the W. C. T. U. and the Ku Klux Klan. The reason for this slight, in view of the Klan's unparalleled equipment for Americanization work, is unexplained...
...marriage to Lord Cook. She died abroad recently. Mrs. Martin, erstwhile Woodhull, neé Claflin, lives on, known as a "financier and reformer." She has written a number of works, including The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government and Garden of Eden Stirpiculture. Her recreations are scientific agriculture, psychical research, motoring (she is a member of the Ladies' Automobile Club), collecting works of art. Now she enjoys old age in Worcestershire, at her beautiful home, Norton Park, Bredon's Norton, near Tewkesbury...
Stripped of its generalities and particulars culled from history books, General Maurice's lecture consists of very little that will further the cause of historical research. He seems to have read up on his subject with commendable thoroughness, and to have added to the material thereby acquired the original conjectures of a mediocre mind; but unfortunately the total result is neither stimulating nor invaluable...
...Antiseptic. Research in the Brady Urological Institute of Johns Hopkins University conducted since 1917 has resulted in the development of a new antiseptic, "mercurochrome...