Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute contributes annually to the support of several institutions in China and allots to Harvard University sums for the development of teaching and research in the culture of the Far East. Its purpose is to carry on work "appropriate to a graduate school of arts and sciences...
...money as it sees fit for experiments in elementary and secondary education. But Lincoln's parents and Dr. Flexner hold T. C. to be morally bound to use it for Lincoln School. They were shocked to learn that T. C. had spent part of the endowment for research not connected with the school, for salaries of professors nominally but not actually on Lincoln's staff. It was estimated that the college had thus diverted $200,000 of Lincoln's funds to its own uses, had given back $59,000 to meet Lincoln's deficits...
Last week a fancy new name popped up for a transatlantic stunt hop. A California pilot named Thomas H. Smith called his a "research flight." He took off from Old Orchard Beach, Me. in a light Aeronca powered with a four-cylinder, 65-h.p. engine, started for Ireland with 160 gallons of fuel-enough, he hoped, for 32 to 40 hours. Smith had no permit from the Civil Aeronautics Authority, said he wanted to test the possibilities of light planes for long-distance flights. Said one of Smith's friends: "He is a level-headed kid and I think...
Handsome, persuasive Dr. Catharine Macfarlane, only woman professor of gynecology in the country, heads the group of women doctors who examine the volunteers. Last week Dr. Macfarlane proudly summed up the first year's accomplishments of the Cancer Research Volunteers' Clinic...
...Headed by famed Surgeon Chevalier Jackson, Woman's Medical College was founded in 1850, has graduated over 1,600 women doctors -general practitioners, gynecologists, pediatricians, institution and research workers...