Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization, Armour's abattoir, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the Clinic may be compared. But it is illogical and stupid to infer that cutting off a hoof in process of butchering is comparable to surgical amputation. And it is altogether incorrect to imply that a specialist has so limited a field as does a meat packer and finds his work no more stimulating and broadening than grading beef. After all, the Clinic has dealt with human beings. Did you say nearly 1,000,000 of them...
...Thompson has another $1,463,000 which Congress, directly or indirectly, has already given the Public Health Service to start moving the National Institute of Health to Bethesda, Md. As soon as buildings are ready Dr. Thompson will move his staff of 650. He no longer does research himself. "I sort of keep an eye on my boys, and help to get the money which enables them to keep going." But he still gets into his old "lab" clothes weekends-to tend the zinnias, phlox and anemones around his home at Chevy Chase. Ground has already been broken...
...performance he must hypnotize himself into the mood of the role. On the set he does not laugh or tell stories or play mumblety-peg, as other actors do to while away the intervals of their work. He sits apart brooding. Before taking a role he studies all the research which the writers used in preparing the script. Once he went to a Warner Brothers producer and complained: "I don't understand this role." "I thought we went over it pretty carefully," said the producer. "I know," replied Muni, "I understand the character all right. But I have...
...basic features of every truly American institution. Hotels, hospitals, public offices, warehouses-all work toward the same end: avoiding as much as possible the weakening and separation of resources and means. All function in the same way. The same working methods obtain at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as at the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia, the Chicago stockyards, and St. Mary's Hospital at Rochester...
...Indianapolis, Police Captain Lewis Johnson announced the results of municipal research intended to reveal the most efficient speed for expediting traffic. Answer: 23.5 m.p.h. Said Captain Johnson: "At that speed the safe distance between cars is 33 ft. and 2,600 cars can be moved past a given point within an hour...