Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...research is old stuff at CalTech, which has always gone in for rough and noisy engineering. But until World War II, Princeton's academic calm was almost unbroken. Toward war's end it went jet with a bang. The screaming roar of rockets and ramjets in the laboratory behind Palmer Stadium outshouted the football enthusiasts. Already the staff of the psychology department laboratory, next door, has decided to move to a quieter spot...
...Chubby in build and cheery in face, Sir Edward likes human beings, and says it will be a terrible wrench to leave his closest colleagues in the British Civil Service [since 1939, he has been Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]. If he's climbed to any eminence at all, it's been on their shoulders. Although he looks forward to resuming academic life, he's found his ten years in civil service a great adventure, which he wouldn't have missed for anything! Always takes life at great pace...
...Asked if he had any recipe for success in scientific research, he said, 'Yes . . . enthusiasm ... I rate that even ahead of professional skill...
Another grad student is packing for New Zealand. Donald Patton, a teaching fellow last year, is right now an army research worker, and will lecture at the University of New Zealand after getting his Ph.D. here this February...
...went to Cambridge on a research fellowship and remained there until President Jordan flew across last spring and asked me to come to Harvard . . . Well, I guess that is about...