Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens live, thrive, tend their families, amuse themselves, go insane, was a study President Hoover last week assigned to another new commission-The Research Committee on Social Trends-financed by the Rockefeller Foundation...
...most U. S. colleges there exist two kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good fellowship. When they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues...
...Corporation solemnly convened, voted to create an extra professorship for him, submitted the proposal to the English board. Again and astoundingly came the negative vote, four to three. President James Rowland Angell accepted Pedagog French's resignation, with customary expressions of regret. The triumph of Research over Teaching seemed complete...
Central Alloy Steel Corp. is the leading producer of steel alloys and is one of the several U. S. steel companies 'licensed by Germany's Krupp Works to make the new nitralloy and nirosta (stainless) steels. The new Republic company is forming a subsidiary, Republic Research Co., which will specialize in the development of alloy steels and will be headed by Frederick J. Griffiths, Central Alloy's board chairman...
...Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...