Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken a crack at newspapering and industrial personnel work before graduation, went to the Bell Telephone Laboratories and then to University of Chicago, where he had charge of vocational guidance and placement. Since 1929 he has been head of the personnel division of the Bureau of Educational Research at Ohio State University. He has also given personnel advice to business organizations, has edited Ohio State's Journal of Higher Education. A critic of the "intellectualistic" educational theories of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Dr. Cowley believes in educating "the whole man,'' personality...
Last week, Captain Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., opened the 1938 season by issuing a prospectus for Loch Ness Monster Co. Captain Munro announced that he would soon issue shilling shares to finance active research. He proposes to build three lookout towers, each equipped with a telephoto camera, range finder, stop watch, powerful binoculars, sound apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North...
...persuaded Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman that since his labors would continue he should have a more active title than Professor Emeritus. So this week, when Dr. Wood appears at the Johns Hopkins commencement ceremonies in his formal academic regalia, Dr. Bowman is to announce his appointment as Research Professor of Physics, for one year beginning September...
...science, the great disappointment of his life has been that he has not received the Nobel Prize. His colleagues say that this is because Wood's mind, brilliantly productive in the early stages of an experiment, tends to grow bored and look for something else when the research reaches a stage where long routine labor is in prospect. He once, it is now known, had the Raman Effect** in his apparatus, trembling on the verge of detection, but he did not detect it. The phenomenon was discovered in 1928 by Physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman of India, who received...
...bonds have generally relied on the ratings published by the four big statistical services-Standard Statistics, Moody's, Poor's and Fitch's.* In 1936 the Comptroller of the Currency made this custom a requirement in cases when bonds are of doubtful value. Last January a research economist at the University of Chicago with the resounding name of Melchior Palyi took it upon himself to denounce this setup. Said he: "The ruling of the Comptroller has put the 'recognized' agencies into a strategic position which may permit them virtually to control the market. The agencies...