Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost everybody is agreed also on the broad outlines of what has to be done. All three bills ask for more doctors, more and better hospitals, and an extensive research program. The dynamite in the President's proposal lies in how he intends to make health services available to more people...
Purcell is an expert in nuclear magnetic movements and radio frequency spectroscopy. On leave of absence from Harvard during the war, he directed research on microwave techniques at the MIT Radiation Laboratory...
Worse still, the typically American Aldriches are also unhappy. The goals that the "Aldrichian civilization" respects (wealth, pleasure, power, or that sort of empty erudition acquired by "departmentalized pedants hiding in the holes of research") answer no essential needs. The Aldriches remain petulant and predatory...
...rotation. Abbot, while head of the Smithsonian Institution's -As-trophysical Observatory (1906-27) and then as the institution's secretary, got the idea that the weather on earth also reflects what is happening on the sun. Since his retirement in 1944, he has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...
Preserved In Oil. A month ago the American Chemical Society (meeting in smog-free San Francisco) heard the results of investigations carried out by the Stanford Research Institute and financed by the Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice...