Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor William Duane '93. Research Fellow in Physics, a noted Roentgen ray expert, is at present attempting to determine the structure of the atom by means of X-ray spectra. A current of tremendous voliage is projected into a Roentgen tube arranged in such a way that the X-ray generated will be passed through a diamond prism. The resulting spectrum is caught on a photographic plate...
...October 25, to be carried on as a nation-wide drive, making its appeal not only to Law School graduates, and lawyers alone, but to any who are anxious to see an improvement in the legislative and judicial branches of the government. "Vast funds have been given to research in the fields of medicine and science," read the appeal that opened the drive, "but in the extremely important field of jurisprudence there have been no large endowments for research that would result in as lasting good as medical and scientific discoveries. Hence the appeal of the Law School...
...There are those who see beauty in the meeting of an irresistible force and an immovable body. Yet aesthetics in the particular case must receive only the support of the lighter minded. As has been stated by sincere and mighty men in the church and in the ranks of research little is gained by a struggle between irreconcilables whose views are as biased as their voices are harsh with the sibilance of sustained animosity. To bait an eledrly gentleman whose convictions are unpopular for the edification of minds who see in "modernism" ultimate salvation is, at best, a sorry game...
...legal medicine it is occasionally necessary to know just how drunk, or nearly drunk, a person was at the moment of accident or crime. For comparison purposes, Dr. Villedent of Paris has collated a table from French and German research. Conclusions depend on the fact that alcohol quickly permeates the human body and is carried by the blood. In the following table figures are transcalculated to U. S. measurements, for a 150-pound man: ALCOHOL-EFFECT...
...world. Demosthenes is Prometheus borne down by Chaos and Old Night; and only flick-ford's book is the chapter on "The Destroyer" where he assesses Darwin's work in its relation to what the world thinks and does now and may think and do in the future. The research which absorbed his life, the obsession with hypothesis and demonstration that robbed him of everything but the passion for work, exploded the dream of Genesis so that we now dismiss it as folklore or, more mincingly, as allegory. God, Heaven and Hell were stripped of reality and are now only...