Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation is the generosity of General Electric to its workers, whose statistics were eloquent evidence of the Owen D. Young theory that a corporation's responsibility is about equally divided between capital, labor, public. The public's share includes, of course, great sums of money spent on research which is not currently productive. No such sums are spent, for example, in New York's cloak and suit hagglery...
...66th annual meeting in Washington last week. She, Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 57, medium-sized and dark, is the only woman member of the Academy. Her membership went to her about five years ago after 22 years' work at Johns Hopkins (where she was a professor) for her research on blood cells, blood vessels and the lymphatic system, (histology). Now she is a member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, going deeply into the causes of tuberculosis. That is what she discoursed on to the Academicians last week...
...fact that it is not yet anywhere near an exact science is no valid reason for its not being fostered by the Harvard curriculum. In fact the amorphousness in which most theories for race betterment now find themselves should be but a stronger incentive for serious efforts toward research and instruction. It is a challenge to any honest educational institution which wishes to acquaint its students with a knowledge of the world as it is known to the best minds of the times...
...devices and index cards in their arms, herded the six women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves on guard. The wagons growled away, angrily jeered by the women on the sidewalk. Thus was the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (TIME, March 18) raided last week. A policewoman, one Josephine McNamara, mother of two grown children, had reported that the clinic was giving out demoralizing information and advice...
...Danger! High Voltage!" appeared before the reporter. When the door on which is this sign was thrown open an immense storage battery producing a potential of 10,000 volts used in X-ray research was revealed. This battery is the largest in the world...