Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose privilege it is to carry on the research which one of the world's greatest astronomers inaugurated when he was a young University of Chicago professor, record our disappointment and surprise that George Ellery Rale's great part in originating and developing the 200-inch telescope project was not highlighted in the otherwise splendid tribute which your recent issue paid to Dr. Edwin Hubble and his associates...
Hale alone among the scientists of the world had the vision and the courage to plan an instrument for scientific research which startles the imagination, and which, in the hands of Dr. Hubble, Dr. Bowen and their colleagues, is certain to bring the solution of some of the deepest mysteries of the Universe. To us the Mount Palomar Observatory always will be the Hale Observatory...
...story is this: we have engaged Elmo Roper and six research organizations abroad to do this international survey of public opinion for us. As far as we know, it is unprecedented in the scope of its subject matter. As work on the forum has proceeded, we have come to realize that this survey makes the forum a unique venture-perhaps the first ever to be based upon a true cross-section report of what millions of people think, feel, hope and fear...
...Harold C. Urey, director of the War Research Atomic Bomb Project (1940-45), got right to the point. The U.N., he declared, is "one of the most inadequate organizations for the enormous problems before it that could possibly be devised...
...down on paper. Much thought and experimentation are needed to make this plan a reality, if it is found to have any merit, but above all there is a need that the administration direct its attention to Harvard College as such and not just to Harvard University as a research center for which Harvard College is the source of teaching personnel and future alumni contributions...