Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, Dr. Martin addressed 21 ambassadors of Central & South American countries. Panama, he stated, had already donated a site for the proposed half-million dollar Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, where tropical diseases would be studied, remedies devised. The U. S. had already appropriated an annual fund of $50,000 for research & administrative work. Dr. Martin proposed that the 21 Latin-American countries should participate, on a population pro rata basis, in contributing a total of $37,500 annually for the same purposes...
...Robert Andrews Millikan, Nobel Prize Winner, chided the New York Chamber of Commerce because businessmen in general are slow in applying scientific research in their affairs...
Arthur Dehon Little, most prosperous of industrial consultants, adroitly proved the prudence of business investing in scientific research-through his new collection of essays, The Handwriting on the Wall (published by Little, Brown...
...Harvard Observatory is the station for the western hemisphere for the telegraphic distribution of current information on astronomical discoveries the service is supplemented by a series of announcement cards, distributed to the astronomical centers in America and Europe. The station was established in 1843 as an institution for original research in astronomical science and at the present time 50 men and women are associated in the work, a few of whom are students in Harvard and Radcliffe...
...center of the nucleus of this galaxy of stars of which our solar system is a part was announced last night at Schenectady by Professor Harlan Shapley in his address before the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. This discovery is the result of many years of research by the Harvard Observatory, and rewards their work on variable stars...