Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacking Harvard University. Within its hollow bowels have lurked a variety of "hostile" uniforms--hues of the American Legion, the Cambridge police, the anti-Red sharpshooters, the purple gown of state legislators. Nor are civilian denizens unknown. Teachers antiquated in theory and doctrine, full of fine words, but lacking research, have been glimpsed. Sometimes the Gatling-gun tattoo of a tabloid printing press has been audible, and this sound has been diagnosed by some as the basic machinery which motivates the horse so powerfully...
What had accomplished this was a far-flung campaign of education, legislation, research, highway engineering and traffic training undertaken by the National Safety Council and some two dozen other groups with the backing of the automotive industry through its Automotive Safety Foundation. President of this Foundation is Studebaker's 47-year-old President Paul Gray Hoffman...
Organized in June 1937, the Foundation has thus far spent $1,250,000, parceling out money to groups best equipped to administer its program. Chief contributor to the National Safety Council, which educates the public, the Foundation also helps the traffic engineering research of men like Yale's Miller McClintock, the personnel-training of Northwestern's Traffic Safety Institute...
...compared physics to "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." Physics has given birth to several other children since then, and Physicist Darwin will try to deal with them all, since research in pure science as well as industrial work goes on at N.P.L. He will move into the palace with a wife and five real children...
Charles B. Marshall, of El Paso, Tex., as Instructor in, Government; Darcy Gilmour, of Sydney, Australia, as Research Fellow in Biology; Frederick T. Wolf, of Durham, N. C., as Research Fellow in Biology; Edwin B. Astwood, of Hamilton, Bermuda, as Research Fellow in Biology; Carlos Munoz, of Santiago, Professor of Agricultural Botany and Silviculture of the School of Agronomy, University of Chile, as Research Fellow in Botany, Arnold Arboretum...