Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Salvemini, who is visiting this country for only a short period to give several lectures before the New School of Social Research in New York City, is one of the outstanding figures in the life of modern Italy. As a professor in the University of Florence he became involved in politics serving as a Deputy of the Progressive School. Although at the outset he was in sympathy with the Fascist movement, and one of the leading contributors to Mussolini's journals, he gradually broke away from the new party, until after the institution of the repressive system of Mussolini...
...Andrews, High Commissioner of the League of Nations for relief work in Russia, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1922), arrived in Manhattan last week to raise $500,000 for a flight to the North Pole in the Graf Zeppelin with Dr. Hugo von Eckener, in 1930. "Arctic research will be the prime consideration," said Dr. Nansen. When only 26, he achieved the first crossing of Greenland. In 1892, he tried to reach the North Pole in a peculiar, round-shaped boat named Fram; three years later he was crossing the ice on foot to the highest latitude then attained...
...Second, that I shall, I hope, be more effective in scientific research and teaching than in administration...
Unconfirmed reports had it that Dr. Little might become President of Harvard, might ally himself with the Rockefeller Foundation to continue his research on cancer. Dr. Little denied all rumors...
...Education, Vocational and Educational Guidance, the Teaching of School Subjects, Demonstration Courses, Engineering Sciences, English, Fine Arts, French, Geology, German, Government, History, Horticulture, Hygiene, Italian, Mathematics, Medical Sciences, Music, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Psychology, Social Ethics, Spanish, and Zoology. In addition there will be opportunity to engage in special research courses...