Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...athletics shorten one's life span? Does rowing hurt the heart? These questions have only partly been answered by modern research...
...foregoing statements were not spoken from the gutter. Author Smith is a writer and amateur chemist; Helwig is a physician who has opened about 5,000 corpses: their cold-sober documentation runs to 47 pages of 100-proof bibliography. Simple laboratory curiosity prompted their research...
Started in 1921 as an organization for purely psychological research, the Corporation has been used for the past few years by big business concerns to determine the effectiveness of their advertising schemes and the general attitude of the public toward their products...
...Research gathered by Author Ickes to support his contention is impressive, comes largely from such unimpeachable sources as Editor & Publisher and from newspapermen's own writings. Thereby Mr. Ickes makes himself a monkey. For Ickes quotes so many criticisms of the press by newsmen themselves that he overturns his own argument, shows that, if many publishers diligently suppress unpleasant facts, others with equal diligence uncover them. He offers no panacea to correct the abuses he recites, piously admits that "We cannot control the press without losing our essential liberties...
Much of the credit for Harold Ickes' book goes to able Historian Dr. Saul K. Padover, who assembled the facts, earns thanks in the preface for "research . . . wise counsel . . . help." America's House of Lords on eight occasions quotes TIME as its authority. But, said Harold Ickes of TIME lately: "I never read the Goddamned thing...