Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the man at present most active in the world for snake poison research debarked at Manhattan. He was Dr. Afranio do Amaral, the soft-voiced suave herpetologist. He came from Brazil† where he is director of the Institute Sorotherapico at Butantan, State of Sao Paulo. His mission was to give a talk or two at Harvard's School of Public Health, where he is formally a lecturer, and to confer with Mulford's President Milton Campbell, his good friend and supporter. Dr. do Amaral is consulting director of Mulford's Antivenin Institute of America...
...reptiles at the New York Zoological Park. Dr. Ditmarks fondly sorted the snakes. As he was doing so, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, retired Manhattan physician, visited him. Dr. Monaelesser was President McKinley's surgeon of the Red Cross during the Spanish-American War. Lately he has been doing private research on epilepsy. His visit to the zoo was for some venom of the black African cobra. Dr. Ditmarks has the only one in the U. S. It is a peculiar snake, for it squirts its venom at its prey's (or enemy's) face. A drop...
...might be well to exclude tourists from Italy, and gloried in the fact that this would mean the closing of thousands of Italian hotels. "So much the better! Then our hotel keepers would invest their capital in Il Duce's land reclamation project, in our colonies, in scientific research, industries, and armaments...
...fields of history and government, lectured at Columbia University as a professor of politics from 1907 to 1917. From 1917 to 1922 he was director of the Training School for Public Service in New York, and during 1922 held the same position at the Institute of Municipal Research in Tokyo. After the Japanese earthquake in 1923, he became adviser to viscount Goto, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs. In 1926 he was president of the American Political Science Association...
...Cannon has been conducting a series of investigations since 1896, concerned with the natural defenses of the body against bacteria, mechanical disturbances, and against thermal and chemical changes in environment. He has paid particular attention, in his research to the best regulation of the body, and the coagulation and sugar content of the blood...