Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game for another try? ... Nature of my research: the life and works of Augusta Evans Wilson, author of St. Elmo, a best-seller for a half century. I am interested in the following kinds of material: letters by and to Mrs. Wilson, authentic anecdotes about her life, the names and dates of newspapers and magazines containing information about her and her books, signed and unsigned magazine articles by Mrs. Wilson, and any suggestions which might reasonably lead to information about this author...
...Berlin meanwhile the German Institute For Bank Research and Science turned out a report showing that 43% of the shares in Polish corporations are held by foreign capital. France is stuck with an investment of 391,000,000 zlotys ($60,610,000); the U. S. with 277,000,000 zlotys ($52,630,000); and the German stake was 251,000,000 zlotys. In the Soviet part of partitioned Poland all capital investments will probably be taken over by Moscow soon, but most of Polish industry is in the German sector and up to this week Berlin had not tampered with...
...Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed Dr. Conant was bent on getting crack research men instead of crack teachers, because he hired big-name scholars at fancy salaries while he let brilliant young instructors of undergraduates go. Harvardmen began to think that Chemist Conant was more adept at test-tube work than at human equations...
...Richard. Last summer Richard built himself a one-lung automobile in the basement shop. Said his father, with the characteristic wrinkled grin that makes his eyes disappear: "A good mechanic's job-and I didn't help him." His other son, Robert, 27, is a Chrysler research engineer. No seeker for a college degree, he went to work for Chrysler after high school. "I gave him a four-year college course in the shop," says his father today, "and I think now that he's a damned fine mechanic...
...research project, according to Dr. Bock, is "to build a body of data which will be useful in solving some of the current problems of social adjustment, employing for the most part existing and generally accepted anthropological, physiological, medical, and Psychological methods...