Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This impassioned plea was received last week by Neuroanatomist Wendell J. S. Krieg, of the Northwestern University Medical School at Chicago. The sender was a 66-year-old Montreal widow who had just read newspaper reports of Krieg's paper, New Horizons in Brain Research. The Montreal widow was not alone. By week's end, 43-year-old Neuroanatomist Krieg had received nearly 100 similar letters from blind, deaf and crippled people from Constantinople to California...
...University's work laid special emphasis on the causes for a sharp decline in the population of Yap. Four major typhoons occurred while the study was going on, but this did not prevent the research crew from compiling a thorough analysis of the native culture with its age-grading custom and strict caste system...
From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...
Expeditions sent from the American School of Prehistoric Research located in the Peabody Museum, have been working in the northern part of North Africa analyzing the successions of cultures that preceded the known civilizations there...
...years Harvard maintained a permanent expedition at the Pyramids in Egypt. Although the research center there was closed last year due to the completion of its permanent work. Harvard men are now leading an effort to establish an American Center for Near Eastern Research in Cairo...