Word: research
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Henderson then was on his way out of crumbling NRA, which he had served as director of Research and Planning, chief economist, member of its short-lived National Industrial Recovery Board. He subsequently fell so low that in 1936 he had to ask Democratic Press-agent Charlie Michelson for a $50-a-week job with the Democratic National Campaign Committee in Manhattan...
...methods of medical diagnosis and treatment. No longer can the family physician carry in his little black bag all the equipment needed to restore his sick neighbor to health. He must, in many cases, rely for assistance on trained specialists, familiar with the latest advances in technical research. As a corollary to this increased specialization in medical science, the trend towards group practice, first introduced some twenty-five years ago by the Mayo brothers, tends to be increasingly pronounced...
...Business School faculty, where he is supposed to have been the first professor of Marketing in any University. During the war he served on the United States Shipping Board. After holding the positions of secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, and of director of research of the J. Walter Thompson Company, he established his own business as marketing and distribution consultant. A native of Kansas, he has written several books on advertising and marketing...
...stricter rule of discipline and wipe out the injustice that exists in far too many courses. Psychologists at Harvard have worked out an excellent system of marking for large classes. Yet with pitifully few exceptions, the other large courses have failed to take advantage of their refined and scholarly research. They prefer to go their own antiquated gait, leaving their marking system open to chance and injustice...
...Rockefeller Jr. reached the age of 65 and last fortnight he announced that, according to regulations, he had retired from the Rockefeller General Education Board, and would soon quit the Rockefeller Foundation. Last week, to the surprise of scientists all over the U. S., the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research enforced retirement rules on its working scientists for the first time, suddenly announced the withdrawal of five of its most brilliant members. Although the five scientists will hand over their administrative duties to younger colleagues, they will all receive pensions, and most of them will continue their important research work...