Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have noticed that you have listed Portland, Ore., as "The Rose City" (TIME, Jan. 30). This city has maintained that title for some thirty-two years or more. However, without research we know of three other cities which have adopted the slogan of "The City of Roses"-i. e., Little Rock, Ark.; Thomasville, Ga.; and Victoria, Texas...
Although dentistry twenty to twenty-five years ago was not ranked very highly as a profession, the tremendous strides that have been made both in research and educational requirements in the last two decades have raised dentistry to its proper scientific and social plane, as one of the most important instruments in the preservation of health, happiness and longevity. The failure of poorly informed or unobservant reporters (if I may be permitted this paradox) to realize these facts, leads them occasionally to still refer to dentists in the press with gross and distorted humor as "tooth carpenters," "tooth yankers...
Last week Dr. A. M. Simpson, of the U. S. P. H. S. Surgeon General's staff, asked the House Appropriations Committee for funds to follow up this research. The Congressmen promised him ample money...
Albert Fuchs (Chicago financier) offered all his wealth (more than $2,000,000) for cancer research, on the day after his wife died of cancer in Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. Fanny Richter Fuchs, famed pianist, made her debut in the U. S. under Walter Damrosch, retired from the concert stage several years ago because of ill health...
...this best of all academic stunts. What Lampy has tried to do is to show this as a link in a chain of policy, the policy of withdrawing from active interest in the undergraduate element at Harvard to concentrate on the more esoteric functions of graduate study and research. Whether or not this is a sound conclusion is a question for careful reflection...