Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard scientific authorities, most of them from the Graduate School of Business Administration, were among the hundreds of economists, educators, engineers, and others who assisted in extensive researches lasting over a year which resulted in the publishing of the survey of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the report of the Committee on Recent Economic Changes based upon it under the title of "Recent Economic Changes...
...Professor of Economic History, as one of the research directors of the National Bureau, led in the extensive investigation conducted in behalf of the committee and his observations are published in the introductory chapter of the report...
...symposium on the structure of molecules, Dr. Irving Langmuir, President of the Society and assistant director of research for General Electric Co., told of studies of oil films on water. Experiment showed that these films are only one molecule thick, all molecules arranged in one direction, with "their heads up and their tails down," as it were, showing that the molecules have different properties on different sides. What was more, a talking movie was exhibited showing some of his experiments. In the opening scene a toy boat sped across a pan of water propelled by a piece of camphor...
...Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory and the T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., Memorial Laboratory were built. They afforded excellent facilities for certain advance courses in chemistry and for the prosecution of research, and still do so. They did not, however, appreciably lessen the great overcrowding in Boylston Hall. Indeed, the conditions in this building, never designed primarily for a chemical laboratory, with little or no ventilation and with antique equipment, became well-nigh intolerable...
...which the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, S.T.D., was Chairman and Dean Wallace B. Donham, Executive Chairman. In order to promote the work of this Committee, the Corporation agreed to appropriate from its won funds $750,000 toward the needs of the Division of Chemistry $500,000 "for endowing research" and $250,000 "for a maintenance fund for the Chemical Laboratories...