Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many things about myself, some flattering, some not so flattering, yet I never recall the statement which you attribute to me [''Who once described himself as 'a centaur gadding about with nymphs, or Solomon dickering with his harem' "-TIME, May 10] ... So I put my research staff (consisting of my wife and myself) to work, and we finally dug up a review of my retrospective show of two years ago, in which a critic had said this about my work: "His early etchings of the 19205 show him, to be a painter of a private paradise...
...Churchill, the problems of large-scale Arctic war still seem almost insurmountable. Even if the cold could be licked, the difficulties of transport and supply would remain, and an Arctic army, like any other, must travel on its stomach. Dr. Omond M. Solandt, head of Canada's Defense Research Board, put it this way: "Today everybody knows it's impossible to fight a war in the Arctic, but we have to prepare for the man who doesn't know it's impossible...
...opposed Bela Kun's Communists and Horthy's Fascists with equal vigor in Hungary. He had lectured in England, was on intimate terms with Britain's royal family. Since 1938 he had lived in the U.S., teaching at New York's New School for Social Research. He had taken the job of minister in the forlorn hope that Hungary's Communist-dominated "coalition" government could be brought to a more friendly attitude toward the democratic U.S. After a "refresher" visit back home last year, he knew that that job was all but impossible. Last week...
...figures are compiled each year by Miss Betty U. Kibbee, research assistant to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, who heads the Population Bureau's college department...
...would help them (alcohol is a vasodilator, relaxing the coronary arteries) or hurt them (cocktails are bad for arthritics). Being overweight is not really a problem of old age, says Dr. Crampton, for fat men seldom live that long. But the public should put more of its money into research into chronic diseases, which make old age miserable. The U.S., says Dr. Crampton, has been spending $22 per death for cancer research, $13,000 per death for infantile paralysis, and only a few cents per victim for the most common killer of all, diseases of the heart and arteries...