Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admit them tends to hide the fact there are already many persons in this country who were forced to leave Germany and Italy. Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Breuning are well-known refugees. A group of such scholars has set up in New York the New School of Social Research, which well-established institution has gone so far as to publish its own quarterly magazine and issue as its first supplement the pamphlet on Taxation. Recommended by the April Fortune as essential reading for the background of the tax controversy, the pamphlet is an eloquent testimony of the contribution the refuges...
...nonpartisan Tax Research Foundation estimated this year from latest available statistics (1934-35) that total revenue from all tax sources was raised in the following countries per capita in dollars thus...
...smogbound Dartmouth, England, finishing touches were last week put on the hull of the Admiralty's 650-ton brigantine, Research. Soon the Research will take up marine research where Carnegie Institute's Carnegie left off in 1929, when she blew up in Apia Harbor, Samoa. Threefold purpose of the Research will be to chart unsounded depths, to study atmospheric electricity, to find out what makes the North Pole attractive to compass needles. A 20th-century anachronism, the Research is a wooden sailing vessel, nonmagnetic in every possible detail. Her hull is of teak; bolts, girders and anchor chain...
...hard, likes to give them responsibility. The school has an honor system and each boy takes a pledge not to smoke during term time. The plan provides for double class periods, half of them allotted to study for the next lesson under supervision of the teachers, and for independent research by the students. The Richards plan is costly, requiring 40% more teachers, but last week Headmaster Richards reported it was worth the cost. Of the 242 boys Lake Forest has sent to college in the last five years, only three flunked out in freshman year...
...current spate of scientific meetings is like a late spring housecleaning which gives theorists and experimenters a chance to clear their research shelves toward the close of an academic year. At the American Physical Society's convention in Washington last week the X-particle, newest and queerest of physics' collection of atomic particles, which weighs much more than an electron but much less than a proton (TIME, Nov. 29). came in for a good deal of housewifely attention...