Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arnold Brecht, professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York, and W. W. Stockberger, adviser to the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Agriculture spoke at the same meeting. John J. Maguire, Commander of the Massachusetts American Legion and D. H. Davenport, associate professor of Business Statistics, were others of the senior delegates who attended the junior delegate meeting...
Several of the less known phases of research work now being carried on at the Biological Laboratories are being backed by the Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research. At present two of its more notable fields of research are those in which assistant professor Kenneth V. Thimann is working on auxin and Dr. Carl Sachs on colchicene. For some time botanists had been trying to find a way to reproduce plants by other than the normal reproductive cycle in the plant; in other words by a vegetative method. After auxin had been found and made, it was Thimann discovered that when...
Pressures reaching up to 2,000,000 pounds per square inch are being applied to rocks and crystals by David T. Griggs, Junior Follow in Geophysics. in a study of geological forces deep underground. Tests used involve the highest one directional stress ever controlled and measured in laboratory research. High pressure equipment utilized was developed at Harvard by Professor Percy W. Bridgeman...
...after a year's intensive research he is preparing to publish his latest findings on bran. Part of his project consists of new experiments to observe the effects of bran on human beings. Last week in his cluttered laboratories in Chicago, he and his assistants were busy feeding bran to 100 volunteers, students of the medical school...
...east of Puerto Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony." Purpose: research on primate behavior, glands, reproduction and tropical diseases. As from Alcatraz, the only mode of escape from Santiago is by swimming...