Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tape-Cutting. Statesman van Zeeland knows that every effort thus far to secure international economic collaboration has bogged down in a quagmire of "preliminary negotiation," "'fact finding" and "research by official experts." Therefore last week he emphasized that "on most of the points . . . prolonged studies have been undertaken," and therefore "plans for putting them into effect could be quickly drawn up with the assistance of specialized organs such as the Economic and Financial Committees of the League of Nations, the Bank for International Settlements, the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Institute of Agriculture, et cetera...
...statistical techniques, prediction of success or failure in marriage is feasible, in terms, to be sure, not of the individual couple but of the group into which the couple falls." Observing that success in marriage "now depends more than ever before upon the findings of research in the psychological and social sciences," he proposed establishment of a Marriage Adjustment Research Institute to develop even more reliable methods of prediction...
Human Element, Captain Harry George Armstrong, M. D., is in charge of the Army Air Corps' physiological laboratory at Dayton, Ohio. After four years of research on military and commercial pilots, Captain Armstrong reported last week that too much has been expected of the human element in aviation. "A pilot begins his career," he said, "in good physical condition, with an exceptionally stable mental and emotional system. Yet, in one study, 11% of all pilots and 50% of all those who had reached the age of 30 were suffering some form of functional neurosis or nervous breakdown. And physical...
...have dealt with the present head of the University. Those who have transacted business with him in University Hall, or have seen him about the country on his various missionary expeditions, have been impressed with his personality and with the way in which he has transferred his allegiance from research in science to an administrative position which calls for sterling abilities...
...research is made possible through the development of an "electron bombardment" furnace, in which metals have been heated, without contamination up to temperatures of bout 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, or nearly half that of the sun. Much higher temperatures could be easily reached by this apparatus, the Harvard scientists...