Word: researched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time coal bin and record storage center has become, this fall, the focus of a new College research project. "Unit B" of the University Health Services, using a $420,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, has begun a program of testing freshmen to measure psychological and sociological changes during their undergraduate years...
...want to discover what happens to individuals when they come to Harvard, and whether or not they change their viewpoints," Dr. Charles E. Bidwell, research sociologist of the Health Services, comments. In the five-year study, members of the Unit B staff will try to ascertain the relation between an individual and the College, and the extent to which their interaction produces changes in the individual...
...enormous launching capacity. Nobody in authority responded until the Russians blasted 7,000 Ibs. into space with Sputnik III in May 1958. Then the Pentagon ordered Von Braun to get to work on Saturn. The Budget Bureau promptly tried to stop it, and Director Roy Johnson of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (who is resigning soon) got it going again. Then Dr. Herbert York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, opposed it because, so said York, it had no clear military requirement. Johnson saved it again. Last week, in limbo between the Army and NASA, Saturn...
Readymade Model. The U.S. does not have to put the space program under military command to get going. But the fact stands that civilians now in command of vital elements of the space program, notably NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan and Pentagon Research Director York, do not have experience in the tough kind of getting-things-done that the occasion demands. One way to resolve the space tangle once and for all would be to set up a unified, civilian-military space organization similar to the World War II Manhattan District in which scientists such as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer developed...
Concern started soon after Richard S. Morse, the Army's civilian Director of Research and Development, took his job last June. None of the VIPs had suffered any ill effects; neither did human volunteers who ate the foods for short periods. But experimental animals put on a long-term diet of irradiated foods had shown some alarming symptoms. Rats developed abnormal eyes, or bled, or died before their time. Bitches bore smaller-than-normal litters. Mice developed enlarged left auricles in their hearts, which interfered with their breathing and sometimes burst...