Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekend at the Law School, Medical School, and School of Education for 1937-38. Law School Faculty Scholarship will go to Paul W. Lukenheimer, of Philadelphia, while four Chicagoans, Charles A. Bane, Raoul Berger, Maxwell Cohen, and Bernard Meltzer and B. Palmer King, of Lincoln, Nobraska, will receive Research Fellowships...
Down the placid waters of broad Chesapeake Bay from Washington last week churned two boatloads of aviation experts, manufacturers and operators to the brick and grass coziness of Old Point Comfort, Va. to attend the twelfth annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Carefully watched by soldiers and with cameras forbidden, they were driven to Langley Field to be chaperoned physically by NACA's Secretary John Victory and mentally by NACA's Research Director Dr. George William Lewis through the world's greatest collection of wind tunnels, to see what the finest...
...High-speed tunnels, spinning tunnels, atmospheric tunnels, variable-density tunnels and propeller research tunnels are old stuff. This year two more were added to the list-a freeflight tunnel and a gust tunnel...
When he is not experimenting on cosmic rays, high-haired Director William Francis Gray Swann of Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation, plays a cello. Young William Edgar Danforth, his assistant, plays a cello too. Both are mainstays of the Swarthmore (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra, a volunteer organization of about 40 men and women who play good music free. Because nobody in the orchestra can handle a French horn or a bass clarinet, Drs. Swann and Danforth built an electrical "oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master...
...lifetime gave away no less than $530,000,000. The Baptist Church was the most consistent beneficiary, but the biggest sums went to the Rockefeller Foundation ($182,000,000), the General Education Board ($129,000,000), the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial ($73,000,000), the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research ($59,000,000) and the University of Chicago...