Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helen Brooke Taussig, noted for research on congenital heart disease, and Simon S. Kuznets, Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins, were each awarded the degree of Doctor of Science. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School, became an honorary Doctor of Divinity; American composer Samuel Barber, Doctor of Music; and Lawrence Terry, Headmaster of Middlesex School, received an honorary Master of Arts degree. Terry was cited as a "Rugged, kindly son of Harvard, an enlightened servant of education and school...
...School Alumni Association and Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research will hold their annual joint luncheon today at Harkness Quadrangle. Speakers will be Francis H. Russell, U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, and J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature...
Soma is also the Greek word for body. Last week, in a Manhattan skyscraper, Dr. Frank Berger, research director of New Jersey's Wallace Laboratories, announced that his firm was beginning to market a new wonder drug-comparable, he hoped, in its effects on the body, to his earlier discovery, meprobamate (Miltown, Equanil), in its effects on the mind. The new tablet is a powerful muscle relaxant with some unusual painkilling qualities. Tried on more than 1,400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints-charley...
...tubercle bacilli can float through the air and cause disease in people who inhale them, why cannot weakened bacilli be transmitted the same way to achieve mass vaccination? This was the question that Dr. Gardner Middlebrook and colleagues at Denver's research-wise National Jewish Hospital asked themselves. Last week, after years of testing, they gave the National Tuberculosis Association a tentative answer: no reason...
...Girl. Jokes about Madison Avenue and motivational research-in this case employed to catch a husband for a girl as charming as Shirley MacLaine-are pretty stale, but Shirley manages to make many of them look fresh as daisies...