Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard yesterday announced the completion of an 85-ton cyclotron capable of producing atomic projectiles of 11,000,000 volts energy, which will be of great use for research in the biological and physical sciences...
Frequently in these cataclysmic collisions penetrating radiations of various types are emitted. These radiations may be used in medical and biological research, while the newly formed radioactive atoms may serve as labels to trace biological or chemical processes within plants or animals without disturbing the normal conditions of behavior...
...then at the Carnegie Institution's station on Long Island) and the late Dr. Edward Murray East (at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station) started their experiments with corn hybridization. The Department of Agriculture, foreseeing laborious years of further experiment ahead, was slow to follow their lead. Thoroughgoing research programs at corn-belt stations did not get under way until 1920, and until 1933 practically no hybrid corn was grown commercially. Not until last year were seed supplies plentiful enough for growers to take their choice of several tested hybrids, instead of having to buy simply "hybrid corn...
...glow with an eerie, blue-green light. Through the streets of East Hartford, Conn., freight cars lumber along old trolley tracks from the plant to the New Haven Railroad. The air of the whole neighborhood palpitates with the muffled thunder of Wasps and Hornets on test stands in the research buildings. And every six seconds the white finger of the airport beacon flicks over the fleshening skeleton of a huge new factory extension growing from the main plant...
...literature, as far as it goes . . . Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" is also to be had in one volume . . . Still another telescoping in Edward McCurdy's spendid edition of "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci", very good to have or give . . . Professor John Livingston Lowes' classic of literary research. "The Read to Xangdn," has now been reprinted. May it long serve to remind us that literary scholarship can itself produce the finest of literature