Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until I was ashamed to have people know I played with such toys. However, Mr. Lincoln has little time for hobbies these days, with the possible exception of golf. He works sincerely and hard for six or eight months on a novel; and for Rugged Water he did considerable research, going back and talking to some of the old guards, gathering details and anecdotes from them. That is probably why he has succeeded in creating so admirably the tense atmosphere of the life and actions of the old time lifesaver. There is much in common between Joseph Lincoln and Zane...
...order to accomplish this investigation science and business have united and enlisted the services of men from many fields. The inquiry will be headed by the Personnel Research Federation, established under the auspices of the engineering foundation, of which Alfred D. Flinn is the director. According to Mr. Flinn the movement marks a turning point in the history of the personnel management in this country. He said the federation would aim "to further the application of scientific research to problems affecting the happiness, welfare, and efficiency of the great body of workers, and to promote research activities pertaining to personnel...
...Lafayette Student Council, after exhaustive research in the lore of the jungle, has chosen the leopard as the symbol for the athletic teams of the college. In this beast they find that the admirable qualities of strength, cunning, and irresistibility are combined in the proper proportions to constitute a formidable whole. Other colleges which have selected such drab beasts as the bulldog, the tiger, or the bear, have apparently not exercised a similar spirit of reason and research in their choices of animated totems...
Professor Einthoven denied the report that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for research in physiology, declaring that he had had no official notification of any such honor...
...Warren, of Harvard University". Mr. Warren, he is not a Doctor, has no official relations with the University. Mr. Warren though of the original idea and came to ask Professor Chaffee's advice. The Government became interested in the proposition and undertook to finance it. Professor Chaffee then began research work to determine if sand particles could be electrically charged, and if so what was the most practicable method of obtaining this charge. All of these experiments were carried on by Professor Chaffee at the Cruft Laboratory at the University with the help of Mr. R. O. Chaffee...