Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintained at the same time that the intensive historical research necessary for an "epic" often brought to light historical data not included in the ordinary history text...
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman of the Award of the General Motors Corporation, has donated $25,000 to the Autometra Safety Foundation, frequent beneficier of Harvard's Bureau for Street Trafile Research...
...cryptic words offered in the play of that name by Paul Hervey Fox and Benn W. Levy. These dramatists say that their farce was suggested by an idea in a novel of Thorne Smith's, but their debt would seem greater than they thereby admit. Their end is physic research not yet reduced to scientific terms; their media are sex and the bathroom. Through the resulting fantastic extravaganza Constance Cummings barges with considerable gusto. The situations she and her colleagues find themselves in are not infrequently, not invariably funny...
...Cannon, who has been on the research staff of the Observatory since 1897, is famous for her classification of the two hundred and twenty-five thousand spectra described in the Henry Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, and for her work in the field of variable stars. She has received many honors in this country and abroad...
...Gaposchkin, who has been on the research staff of the Observatory since 1927, is recognized as one of the world's two or three most prominent workers in the field of standard photometry. Her notable works include "Stellar Atmospheres" and "Stars of High Luminosity." Her catalogues of stellar magnitudes are the recognized standard...