Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hastily he planted the scrapings in test tubes with germ culture mediums. He sealed the tubes so that no modern air could affect the scrapings. If he did have pre-Cambrian life in his tubes modern air would spoil his research, for the earth's present atmosphere is quite different from that of geological ages...
...swirls of scientific research, industrial promotion, amusement purveying and financial synthesis, the greatest U. S. amusement enterprise became imminent last week. Last spring Radio Corp. of America organized as a subsidiary R. C. A. Photophone Inc. to exploit a method of making and reproducing sound-pictures. Photophone is similar, and interchangeable, with Fox's movietone films. Both change sound waves to light waves, and reproduction reverses the process. Warner Bros, vitaphone uses phonographic discs for sound accompaniment with its pictures. Vitaphone and movietone had close tie-ups with cinema producing, distributing and exhibiting companies (TIME, July 9). Photophone...
...There is also the man whose best intellectual development is not obtained through research work or even through 'search' work of the kind encouraged by seminars and intensive attention to the cultivation of a narrow field...
...that it is another survey by three persons whose qualifications for that survey may be indifferent. But it is not just another survey in this sense of the term, and therein lies its value. The data presented was gathered under the direction of The Institute of Social and Religious Research, which determined to go to the heart of the problem, and sound the sentiment of the mass of undergraduates. The book does not present the opinions of the investigators based upon examination of colleges, but what undergraduates who have not the power of the press behind them think about themselves...
...Largest (278 beds) and most important (research, clinic) of special hospitals for Negroes. Other important race hospitals are: St. Phillips at Richmond, Va., 176 beds; George W. Hubbard at Nashville, Tenn., 140 beds; Mercy at Philadelphia, 100 beds; John C. Andrews Memorial at Tuskegee, Ala., 75 beds...