Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result is wonderful," exclaimed William James in 1903. "A real school and real thought. Here [at Harvard] we have thought, but no school. At Yale, a school, but no thought. Chicago has both...
...third world war be like? Would the U.S. be ready for it? Could the U.S. win it? Could civilization survive the holocaust made possible by the new techniques of war? No one is better qualified to answer such questions than Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and of the project which produced the atom bomb; but in answering them he only half succeeds in removing from them the terror of the half-seen...
...gift of $50,000 to the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research from the Mallinkrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis was announced yesterday by Provost Buck...
Paul C. Smith, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, has been named as chairman of a committee of newspapermen to raise funds for a Nieman Follows Room in the new Graduate Center, Donald H. McLoughlin, chairman of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, announced last Friday...
Krieg's research indicates that even when the transmission stations are permanently damaged, the brain is still capable of receiving and translating electrical impulses artificially applied. Thus, Krieg says, if a certain point at the back of the brain is stimulated, the patient will "see" a flash of light in a precise part of his visual field...