Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice, a democratic set-up promises the greater good. Such a system in each department, operating through the proposed fact-finding committees, forestalls to a great extent personal bias and prejudice. It provides a much fairer and more competent method of ascertaining the abilities of each candidate, both in research and teaching. By its very nature, it makes for strength to throw off the yoke of the Corporation. The reaction of the official faculty committee now investigating tenure to this document of educational democracy should be of the utmost interest...
Last week another experiment aptly illustrating the frustration-aggression theory was reported in the Harvard Educational Review by University of Iowa's famed Psychologist Kurt Lewin. In the University's Child Welfare Station, research workers formed two clubs of boys & girls about ten years old, set them to work making masks. One was a "democratic" group, with an adult leader who let the youngsters decide how to work, the other "autocratic," with a leader who gave orders and criticism without reasons. Observers' findings...
...villages and farms buy a large chunk of the consumer goods sold in the U. S. Last week a research committee, jointly sponsored by CBS and NBC, made public a report which gave a partial answer on how well radio was doing its job interesting and selling the farmer. The committee's researchers conducted 20,362 personal interviews on farms and in communities of less than 2,500 population in 96 sample counties scattered throughout the 48 States. What they found out, they consider a fairly accurate slant on the radio habits of the nation...
...Cruft laboratory, Harvard's famed center for research in communication engineering, are the experiments on sound, radio transmission, phonograph recording, and light, characteristics. Here is the station which maintains continuous automatic shortwave radio communication with Troy, N. Y. in an investigation of the ionosphere, the little understood deep-blankets of atomic particles which surround the earth a hundred or so miles from the ground and enable long-distance wireless communication...
...electric shaver is the culmination of years of effort by scientists and research men to help those unfortunate individuals who shave every morning, and then find that at five o'clock they are right back where they were in the morning. And yet what would you have them do? You, you heartless and unforeseeing fiends, would have them look at the radio section to make sure that they don't disturb your programs. this is of course only the beginning of your program ... Let me assure you ... that we "electric shavers" shall fight you tooth and nail...