Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...research professor in Harvard's department of architecture, of which Walter Gropius is chairman, Breuer is, like Gropius, a creator of the international school of architecture. And like most internationalists, he is restless, widely traveled, had roamed over Europe, settled in England, when he packed up to follow Gropius to Harvard last year. Breuer's architectural Odyssey began when he graduated from the gymnasium at Pecs, Hungary, in 1920. Then 18, the son of a middle-class doctor, he streaked for Vienna, heard about the newly established Bauhaus, moved to Germany and then Paris, where his furniture designs...
Three major centres of world research in cryogenics are: the University of Leyden in Holland, Oxford University in England, the University of California in the U. S. In California the work is directed by handsome, dapper William Francis Giauque, who first devised the method of cooling magnetic salts closer to absolute zero than had previously been done. His method makes use of the principle that magnetization heats matter, demagnetization chills it. After preliminary cooling with liquid helium, the salt is magnetized, the heat thus generated drawn off into a jacket filled with helium vapor; then demagnetization pushes the substance down...
...bottom of Depression I, surprised-looking President William J. Reilly of the National Institute for Straight Thinking began to think hard about educating businessmen. After six years of research in straight and crooked reasoning, Dr. Reilly declared that the Institute had achieved a formula for Straight Thinking in Business. In Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel at 7 a. m. one morning last week, the Institute sprang Lesson No. 1 on 60 students, mostly admen of the questing, high-pressure type with whom Dale Carnegie's courses were popular. Dr. Reilly called the First Annual Straight Thinking Breakfast a "mental...
Other speakers: Professor (economics) Nathaniel Waring Barnes of Columbia University; William Kenneth Anderson, Research Director for Lament, Corliss & Co.; Russell Young (Young & Rubicam Advertising Agency) ; Lee H. Bristol (Bristol-Myers Co.). President Mortimer Berkowitz of The American Weekly said darkly: "Most people do not think...
...facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication of tuberculosis, venereal diseases and malaria, control of fatalities in pneumonia and cancer, promotion of mental hygiene and industrial hygiene; $145,000,000 for erecting hospitals with 360,000 extra beds, maintaining free beds, promoting medical research. The delegates heartily approved...