Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less hay through the cow's little window and feed it to dieted rats. If the rats do not get neuritis, Jessie does make Vitamin B. If they do get neuritis, then the experiment will have been usefully foolish. It will have closed one more needless door of scientific research...
People who believe in ghosts, and others who do not, assembled last week at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., for a symposium on psychical research, called by Dr. Carl Murchison, Clark psychology chief, for the express purpose of assembling all evidence pro and con on returned spirits and publishing an impartial record. Dr. Murchison first made it clear that he and his Clark colleagues were downright skeptics, then opened the conference with a paper by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This paper, while it contained nothing new, made a distinction, sharply sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist...
...Walter Prince, head of the Boston Society for Psychic Research: "Cameras were used at sittings for 20 years before an ectoplasmic apparition appeared on one of them. The spirits present before that time [i. e. when ectoplasm was first photographed] evidently did not take." He also cited the fact that Britishers have taken "ectoplasm pictures" without special lenses and shutters. But Dr. Prince refuted for spiritualists the Jastrow charge of "wishful thinking," pointing out that a will to disbelieve is no more scientific than a will to believe...
...awards will be made: prizes of $2,000 each, for the best national campaign, for the best campaign of industrial products, for the best local campaign, and for the best local campaign in cities of 100,000 population or less; a $2,000 prize for the most conspicuous advertising research to bring about economy and preclude waste; four prizes of $1,000 each for advertisements most effective in the use of text, in the use of pictorial illustration, in the combination of text and illustration, and in the use of typography...
...field of scientific research the institute has directed or taken grant in 40 expeditions for astronomical research, anthropological surveys, the collection of wild game, the study of crustaceans, and for archeological, geological, paleontological, botanical investigations. The institute bandled also 480,776 packages in the exchange of scientific and government documents to 56 countries. The museum has acquired 254,032 new specimens of various sorts. The national gallety received as gifts a considerable number of works of art. The figures are heavy and dull in themselves but behind them is the combined activity of thousands of the keenest mines...