Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true, the report constituted an amazing piece of research. Whether true or not, it constituted a terrific piece of propaganda, not only as showing the Nazi chiefs prepared to run, but because hoarding money outside Germany is a crime in Germany, punishable by death. Sure to be whispered inside Germany, its effects may easily be serious...
...financial "angels" were identified by bug-eyed, mustachioed Alexander Trachtenberg, a naturalized Russian who manages Communist publishing and propaganda outfits in Manhattan. One was Miss Anna Rochester, a worker for the Labor Research Association in Manhattan, whom Witness Trachtenberg respectfully described as "a very wealthy woman." The other was a retired New Jersey manufacturer (of compressed oxygen), named Abraham A. Heller, who got into the news 20 years ago as "the millionaire Bolshevist," still contributes liberally to Communist ventures. "He is a very wealthy man," said admiring Mr. Trachtenberg. "And a member of the Communist Party?" ejaculated scornful Mr. Dies...
Before its Harlem junket, last week's congress had its fill of erudition. The musicologists, whose line is musical research as opposed to musical performance, heard such typical papers as The So-Called Babylonian Notation, Mozart's Handwriting and the Creative Process, The Evolution of Javanese Tone-Systems. Delegates from France and Germany were kept away by the war, and the musicologists soberly discussed probable hindrance of their work elsewhere, applauded a message from French Novelist-Musician Romain Rolland: "In the field of art, there is not . . . any rivalry among nations. The only combat worthy...
...research clearing house for Executive Departments. Chairman: Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes...
When Dr. Calingaert mixed two antiknock fuel ingredients, tetraethyl lead and diethyldimethyl lead, and gave them a catalytic nudge, atoms came loose from the molecules and formed new compounds at random-in quantities predictable by the laws of chance. For this reason, popularized versions of the Calingaert research referred to it as a chemical "dice game" or "poker game." Actually, since he deals with trillions of molecules in one operation, the chemist always knows what sort of hand he will draw...