Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appropriation proposed for the six years is $855,000,000. The bulk of the money ($40,000,000 the first year, $140,000,000 the last) would go for elementary and secondary education, the rest for school building, training of teachers, adult education, State educational administration, rural libraries, educational research. The money would be distributed among the States according to their needs. Federal control of what the schools teach would be barred...
Forty-eight years ago March 1, Isaac Kauffman Funk and Adam Willis Wagnalls, both Lutheran pastors, brought out the Literary Digest, "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world." Such a review, thought Partners Funk & Wagnalls, would be especially handy for theologians and educators. The Literary Digest amended its formula in 1905 to include newspaper comment on news more mundane than "thought and research." In ten years its circulation stepped...
Chickens have miniature color photography outfits in their eyes. This was what Dr. George Wald, instructor in Biology, said in an interview when speaking about his research in the field of visional Chemistry...
...used in half light or in darkness, while the cones are used in color vision. It has already been known that there is a visional purple partly composed of vitamin A, which is used in seeing with the rods; it is this that has led to the recent research into the connection between night blindness and vitamin...
Bagley, who came here a little over a year ago, and now has had a chance to weld the course together, deplored "the lack of research funds." The only original work must now be done along with regular jobs in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...