Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen prominent Harvard graduates, now in the faculties of Harvard and other American universities, have been appointed to fellowships of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the coming year to engage in research study and creative work abroad...
...week at London statistics showing that for the past century and a quarter 60% of all British Cabinet members have been hereditary titled aristocrats. This significant discovery was touted as proving that the British governmental system is not, after all, "democratic," as it is often declared to be. Further research by Professor Laski appeared to show that only 23 businessmen have ever become Ministers of the Crown...
...Hugh Stott Taylor of Princeton University, in the opinion of his chemist-colleagues, has been engaged in research which was the "most original," and the "most stimulating to further research." Accordingly, he received last week the Nichols Medal, coveted by all chemists. Industrial problems had suggested to Dr. Taylor the study of catalytic agents-those substances which accelerate, retard, or even cause chemical change, while remaining themselves unchanged. Catalytic agents are used to vulcanize rubber. Chemist Taylor's experiments have been with substances which prevent rubber from rotting, dyed materials from fading, oil from becoming rancid...
...generally known that dietetic authorities minimize the use of meat, and a great many exclude it from the diet altogether. The least one can do, in justice to himself, is to minimize meat. Accordingly, we, through research and on the advice of eminent authorities, are disposed to offer to the public a list of foods that are chosen for their dietetic value and scientifically prepared, in order that we may have the ultimate satisfaction of seeing that the public benefits by this highly intelligent doctrine. Therefore, we repeat the phrase which has already been stated-Man is made of what...
...Scholar, a native of the West, and a faculty member of the University of Oklahoma. Stanley Vestal takes all that is laudable in the modern method of biography--its colloquial style, eye for the dramatic, disrespect for mythology and Thompsonesque patriotism without falling into the pitfalls typical of tabloid research and the worship of sex appeal...