Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...energy that a fly uses in crawling up one inch of window-pane in one second, is as near to nothing at all as most people can imagine. But last week, Dr. D. D. Knowles, 28-year old research engineer of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., demonstrated before unbelieving eyes in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan, a device that runs on one-fortieth of one fly-power?in electrical parlance: one-billionth of a watt...
...light, John L. Baird of England, with his super-sensitive photo-electric cell and infra-red rays, C. Francis Jenkins in Washington, Edouard Belin of France, these had hounded success for many years. But it remained for Dr. Herbert Ive's,* bearded, bespectacled chief of the Bell television research staff, to correlate the achievements of his predecessors and direct the work of many men to last week's success...
...Roback '17, a member of the National Research Council of Harvard, and the author of several well-known psychology books, will aid Professor Prince in editing the collection. The name of the printer has not yet been announced...
...former plan of broad fields, encouraged men to choose those in which they could take the most courses, and thus cover the specific subject with the least individual research. A premium was thus placed upon those fields in which much instruction could be obtained, and which formed a large block of in general History examination...
...cancer research, at least, there will be no dearth of facilities and money this year. The American Society for the Control of Cancer practically has its million dollars to spend on public education to prevent cancer. Various other societies haVe their funds. Hospitals have their clinics, supported usually by special endowments. In Manhattan the New York Cancer Institute, financed by the city, cares for impoverished cancer patients and studies the infinite variety of the disease. Last week the New York Cancer Association, headed by Sanders A. Wertheim, occasionally flamboyant coal dealer, announced that, to cooperate still further with the city...