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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controlled Bessemer steel is mainly due to a man with a jocular drawl, who likes to fish, take photographs of steel mills, put his feet on his desk. His name is Herbert W. Graham and J. & L. got him fresh from Lehigh University in 1914. He once told his research staff that, instead of 200 bright ideas a year, he would rather have two ideas that worked. In 1934 smart Metallurgist Graham persuaded J. & L. to let him build a complete miniature pilot mill to try out new metallurgical ideas. In this mill he developed a new way of getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bessemer Eye | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...carry on Dr. Willhelmy's research, the Navy assigned Lieutenant Raymond Andrew Lowry of the Dental Corps. Last week 32-year-old Dr. Lowry, now detailed to the aircraft carrier Yorktown, made a report to the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy which confirmed Dr. Will-helmy's findings, and offered a simpler remedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pilots' Teeth | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

BERKELEY, Cal--When Jacobus ten Brooke, 27, brilliant, blind law graduate of the University of California, goes to Harvard this fall on one of the much-coveted Brandeis research fellowships, he will take with him "his eyes...

Author: By The UNITED Press), | Title: Blind Law Student Receives Brandeis Fellowship; Wife Serves as His Eyes | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

Rutherford suggests that instead of research courses in the happenings of former centuries, students study the workings of the W.P.A. and that instead of "being nauseated by the Mathers, both increase and Cotton, they might be stirred up over John Dos Passes' reports of the living American scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esquire Reviewer Strikes at Theory Of Education at Harvard; Cites Book | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

...sees "19th century philology" as harming scholarship by "burying the young student in 'research' before he knew what he was after. He was to dig it out (blind, ham-strung, as blacks in a diamond mine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ezra Pound, Well Known Author, to Read Poems Here | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

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