Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal characters in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, brilliant best-selling novel by Thornton Wilder, himself one of twins. Almost every person includes in his acquaintance a pair of twins and contemplates their doings with delight and astonishment. For this reason, a wide interest attaches itself to a research begun last week by the University of California. Learned faculty members planned to assemble 500 pairs of twins and to study, with the utmost care, the details of their likenesses or their dissimilarities. A similar research has been announced by the University of Chicago...
...such a research been made in the past, there would indeed have been many a strange brace of simultaneous children for scientists to study. Doubtless the savants of California wished that they could include, among their specimens...
Twelve authorities in the radio industry, including officials of national electrical and broadcasting companies, men active in research, and an authority on radio legislation, will give a series of lectures on the radio industry in the Business School during the month of April in the course in Business Policy under the direction of Anton De Haas, Professor of Foreign Trade...
April 17, "Research and Manufacturing in the Radio Art," by E. P. Edwards, manager of the Radio Department of the General Electric Company...
...devoled to efficiency as the present one, experimentation on der the auspices of Doctors Hill and that most fundamental machine of all, the human body, is becoming of increasing importance. Harvard has not lacked representatives in this new field of research. Earlier this year C. P. Yaglou of the Medical School conducted exhaustive experiments into the effects of temperature on human effectiveness. Another research is now going on under the auspices of Dictors Hill and Henderson of the Medical School and School of Public Health for the purpose of discovering the reactions of the bodily processes to various forms...