Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growing importance of clinical research in the advance towards a deeper understanding of the human body is unquestioned. During the past half century every major contribution to medicine has come from them. They can tap the best in equipment and men, and are proving the most adequate method of succoring the urban population that can pay little or nothing for medical care. The problem now before the medical profession is how to finance care for the poor in the clinics and continue their research activities...
...Research has come to the conclusion that each non-sterile family will have to have four children in order to keep the birth rate from falling. Any social change which will bring about this proportion of children per family will involve radical economic changes. The high standard of living in modern democracies must be taken into consideration if any such step is taken...
...been president of the American Psychological Association, his intelligence tests are used in many a U. S. school, but though his name is widely known, few people, even on the Chicago campus, have ever seen Professor Thurstone. With his dark-haired wife, Thelma, who collaborates in his research, he works constantly in his narrow office and his laboratory, hopes his three boys will all be scientists...
...latest scientific happenings. My quarrel is with the scientists themselves. With the present status of scientific literature as a background, a well-written article would stand out in any standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled, 'A Short Dissertation on the Effects of Alcoholic Tincture of Rotenone in the Control of Thrips on Six-weeks...
...White made the point that the mystery of protein structure must be cleared up before scientists can understand how the hormones exert their obscure, powerful control on living processes. The chemists applauded his paper heartily and he was awarded the $1,000 Eli Lilly & Co. prize for meritorious biochemical research...