Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to tentative arrangements, the new building will be in the general shape of the letter "L" extending back from Divinity Avenue and then parallel to the street. It will contain no lecture halls, as those in the Museum are ample. Instead, it will be devoted to laboratories, research rooms, and administrative offices...
...award was created in 1902 to commemorate Lord Kelvin's researches, and is presented every three years by the Institute of Civil Engineers of Great Britain for research work in ocean telegraphy and electrical measuring devices...
Calvin Coolidge in the White House carried on the same system, roughly, through the appointment of F. Stuart Crawford as research secretary. This post, however, went under a cloud when it was found that the Coolidge addresses, when dealing with geography and other indis- putable facts, followed with a striking literalness the text of the International Encyclopaedia. Besides, Mr. Coolidge had a certain vanity about his literary style which he considered inimitable. Lobby gossip went out through Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns or Private Secretary Edward Clarke not through Mr. Crawford...
Last week President Hoover appointed French Strother, California Democrat, to this post of research and literary secretary. Mr. Strother will burrow through many a tome to fill the Hoover speeches with new and illuminating facts. No one more than the President knows the value of judicious publicity and the White House press relations staff will do all it can to suppress the customary tittle-tattle that surrounds the Presidency by offering instead good substantial material for publication...
Besides making possible a larger number of research projects than at any time since its inception in 1924, the apportionment of the Milton Fund this year is notable for its humanistic flavor. Created "in the interest of, or for promoting the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race", the Fund has in its present awards succeeded in providing for work in close harmony with the original ideals of its founder. That research study in the humanities is often neglected for more technical investigation, the significance of which the layman often fails to see, is perhaps natural under...