Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fury. The Blocks rushed their Amm-i-Dent powder on the market in November, spent $400,000 on newspaper ads in 60 days, this year will spend $2,000,000 more on advertising. Because paste dentifrices get 85% of the market, the Blocks will spend $150,000 this year researching ammoniated pastes, expect to gross $3,000,000 on Amm-i-Dent powder but to lose money on it-because of the high promotion and research costs-until 1951. By last week the field was getting crowded. Sterling Drug had brought out an ammoniated version of Dr. Lyon...
...cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career of nuclear research...
...Isador S. Edelman, research follow in surgery, will testify today before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that accused him of having Communist leanings while working under an Atomic Energy Commission fellowship...
Berlin, who is a philosopher by profession and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, arrived at Harvard in January on what he calls his experiment in General Education. He's lecturing on the "Development of Russian Revolutionary Ideas" in the Regional Studies Program and assisting at the Russian Research Center...
...deplores the tendency in England and the U.S.--not at Harvard, he remarks diplomatically--of university professors to doubt the worth of their academic pursuits. "Outside always suspects Ivory Tower, but insiders now think asking questions too persistently is form of maladjustment. Research, secret joy, but go to Washington to justify it. Whole concept of university breaks down. Used to think disciplines just different ways of asking same question. Now want answers, not truth...