Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explained that in the past, candidates for honors often wrote 100 to 150 typewritten pages. Believing that a long thesis would influence their rank favorably, they were tempted to put material from secondary sources in their theses, minimizing the amount of original work acquired from their own thinking or research...
...assure the connservation of our governmentally controlled natural resources. . . . There are local instances where the Government must enter the business field as a byyproduct of some great major purpose such as improvement in navigation, flood control, scientific research or national defense." (This was the nearest the speech came to mentioning Water Power...
...last week's Leper Mission meeting Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service, was brave enough to be pessimistic about reported cures of leprosy. He was for long director of the Leprosy Research Station at Molokai. As others, he injected chaulmoogra oil into the veins of lepers. The oil caused the lepers terrific pain. Often they fought against its use. Yet it seemed to stop the rodent, rotting, eating course of the disease. Chaulmoogra oil and its esters are the only medicines doctors know to treat leprosy...
...Latvia a Jew named Kirstein was recently sentenced to death for murder. Against a horrible death he preferred a horrible living; he chose to be infected with leprosy and be used as an experiment at the Riga Leprosy Research Institute. Last week he was an inmate there. If cured, he will be a free...
...John Harvard were probably first brought together by William Shakespere. Following the clue offered by the circumstances that Miss Katherine Rogers lived near the home of Shakespere in Stratford and Robert Harvard lived in London, between which city and Stratford William Shakespere was the only "antecedent link" that research has brought to light, this writer continues that the poet probably invited his London friend Robert Harvard to Stratford. There he may have introduced this friend to Miss Rogers, whom Shakespere surely knew, as both his father and hers were Aldermen in the little town. Furthermore, Shakespere was in Stratford about...