Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the world at an "institute" or congress to be held at Pennsylvania State College by the American Chemical Society next July. Last week the Society's president, Dr. George D. Rosengarten of Philadelphia, appointed a committee to arrange and direct the institute's program. Since pure research is now being pursued as vigorously by industry as in academe, it was not surprising to find more industrial employes than college professors on the committee, which included: Dean Gerald L. Wendt of physics and chemistry at Penn State; Professor Frank C. Whitmore, chemistry head at Northwestern University; Director Willis...
...doctors had leisure for research, facilities for research, if they had the money that would permit leisure and would give facilities, they would find cures for disease. Rich men have given great sums for the furtherance of medical knowledge. Some have given with the impersonal benevolence of the Rockefellers (Rockefeller Foundation) and of those contributors to the $1,000,000 endowment of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (TIME, Feb. 14 et ante). Others have given put of the ache of personal tragedies. The wife of Lucius N. Littauer, "Gloversville, N. Y., glove maker, died of pneumonia...
...coming year. Newspapers gave the item the prominence due to anything connected with the name of Simon Guggenheim, onetime U. S. Senator from Colorado (father of the memorialized John Simon Guggenheim, deceased 1922). They explained that the $3,500,000 foundation was to foster research work by young, productive U. S. scholars and artists; that some 600 such scholars applied for fellowships, this year 63 of them being rewarded. But the newspapers made no attempt to explain what the 63 lucky ones would now hurry off to do with their money...
...Genesee River. At 72, he has given away more than $58,000,000 -to the University of Rochester including its medical school and its Eastman School of Music; to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes. He has also financed scientific expeditions (Time, March 22, 1926), research in electrolytic deposition of colloidal rubber (TIME, Nov. 8). At present his research staff is working with U. S. surgeons on the tinted, chromatic motion photography of difficult surgical operations...
Historical material was furnished by Hermann Hagedorn, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Much of his research is incorporated into the film ably directed by Victor Fleming. Primarily, however, the object was a tingling war melodrama, not a historical epic...