Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Agassiz, was the founder of the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1859. His father, Alexander Agassiz, also took part in the museum's affairs from 1860 until 1910. Mr. Agassiz himself has been one of the chief advisors and benefactors of the museum, and had also sponsored considerable research at the Astronomical Conservatory...
...this instance, the lag of commercial exploitation behind laboratory research was remarkably short. Indolebutyric acid, one of the Boyce Thompson stimulants, has already been placed on the market by several manufacturers as a root stimulator for cuttings. Merck Chemical Co. sells it as "Hormodin A" at a price of $2 for 15 cubic centimetres, which, diluted upwards of 6,000 times, is enough for about 1,500 cuttings. Pennsylvania Chemical Corp. markets it under the name of "Auxilin" at a price of $1 per half ounce. The prospect is that in ten years the nurseryman who neglects to stimulate...
Last year Dr. Chapin, 48, now associate curator of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History-a lean man with snapping eyes, unruly grey hair and a sandy mustache-was in the Congo Museum in Tervueren, Belgium, finishing research for a book he was writing. Deciding he had need of the museum director, who was studying shells on the fourth floor, he trotted up the stairs, idled along a quiet corridor. Suddenly on top of a dusty exhibit case, he saw a pair of unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been...
Spectacular as that operation was and useful as it might be to specialists in birth control, it was simply one incident in a profound research into fundamental biological activity which Dr. Burr and colleagues at Yale are quietly pursuing. They want to analyze "the electrical properties [of living creatures] and determine where and how they appear and to find some reasonable explanation of their presences. . . . It is not improbable that they may be bound up with the dynamic wholeness of a living system. Electrical currents produce electrical fields and it is possible that a living organism possesses not only many...
...Norwich University announced that with an endowment of nearly $250,000 it would give next year the first college course in the world on Air Traffic Regulations and Air Transportation. ¶Manhattan's New School for Social Research advertised something called Compensating Gymnastics for Sedentaries...