Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Throughout the war, he carried the major responsibility for the organization of the nation's civilian scientific effort in the development of new weapons, exercising absolute dictatorial power over men and materials in the two billion dollar research program which developed radar, new devices in the field of chemical warfare, and, finally, nuclear physics," the citation reads...
...becoming infinitesimal. Dynamic psychiatry is being accepted more & more widely ... In other words, people are beginning to see that damage of the same kind can be done by a bullet, bacteria or a mother-in-law." The extreme Freudian approach, he thinks, is "almost metaphysical." Although strong for research, he believes that cure is more important than exact diagnosis: "One does not have to know the cause of a fire...
Paramount Pictures' Paul Raibourn. who has made his studio a TV pioneer, sounded optimistic about the movies' future. But he gave the new living-room wonder its due. His own research staff had reported that a new television set in the home not only does away with radio listening while it is on,* but also cuts 20% to 30% off such leisure pursuits as driving, reading-and moviegoing...
...campaign, Dean Griswold listed as its objectives "comfortable living quarters to free students from dependence on expensive, over-crowded, and deteriorating Cambridge rooming houses; increased scholarship funds to offset increased tuition fees; teaching fellows to aid in providing more group and individual student work; funds to facilitate individual Faculty research and to make possible staff investigations of important large-scale problems; and funds to relieve student tuitions from having to bear the whole burden which increased costs are casting on the Law Library...
Others have not been so startling or dramatic, but every Council report is carefully considered, and is based on hours of research done by people both in and outside of the Council...