Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to attend the winter meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Manhattan last week edged forward on their seats when rumpled-haired Dr. William David Coolidge began to explain his further experiments with cathode rays. Dr. Coolidge, assistant director of the General Electric Co.'s research laboratories, had just received the Institute's Edison Medal for his "contributions to the incandescent electric lighting and x-ray arts" by his development of ductile tungsten for bulb filaments and x-ray targets. At the same ceremony John Joseph Carty of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had received...
...Current Exhibition of Japanese Decorative Art" is the subject of a lecture to be given by Langdon Warner '03, Fellow of the Fogg Art Museum for research in Asia, in the large lecture hall of the Museum at 4.30 o'clock...
...Labor Bureau Inc., specialists in economic research for labor unions, last week estimated that throughout the U. S. 4,000,000 persons lacked work. One-third (250,000) of the soft coal miners of the country had no jobs. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who in 1894 led Coxey's workless "Army of the Commonweal of Christ" afoot from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, last week at Manhattan said that on a tour from Boston to Minneapolis since last June he had found "25% of the factories idle in the territory covered." He is considered a reliable, although theatrical, observer...
Credulous persons who enjoy a faith in parental paradoxes were no doubt disconcerted last week when they discovered the result of researches into the heredity of students at Yale and Harvard. These results were announced by Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, research associate of the department of geography at Yale. They indicated that the most representative undergraduates, the most successful graduates from Yale and Harvard were the sons of missionaries; next came the sons of professors; third came the sons of ministers. Businessmen's sons were low on the list, farmers' sons at the bottom...
...work is the result of a meeting of the National Research Council last spring, at which a report on a survey of the field of industrial medicine was made. The purpose of the report was to find the most pressing problem of the day concerning health in industry. It was discovered that the conditions in the granite cutting industry was in immediate need of attention. Accordingly a committee with Dr. D. L. Edsall, Dean of the Medical School, and Professor Drinker as heads formed...