Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovery of the neutron particle in the Cavendish Laboratory by James Chadwick is the result of a long search into the field of radio-activity, under the direction of Lord Rutherford. Chadwick and Rutherford have collaborated for many years, and the wealth of scientific material which they have produced...
...committee's desperate search for new sources of revenue to bridge this six-or-seven-hundred million dollar gap arose last week a new and striking sentiment in favor of some form...
...little deliberate consideration in to handy departments. The result is chaotic irresponsibility reduplication, useless expense and inefficiency. Reformers and students have long demanded changes, but courageous in deed would be the president first to buck the ire and political weight of the government bureaucracy. Opponents of Mr. Hoover will search with considerable success for points of attack in this message. They will delight in its incompleteness and lack of forcefulness. But nothing will suit their purpose better than his final proposal, which is almost sure to be excelled by Congress...
Late one night last November young Dr. Cornelius Packard ("Dusty") Rhoads of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-search returned to his quarters at San Juan, Porto Rico, and found that someone had stolen a cushion and some accessories from the motorcar he used. After six wearing months of treating balky Puertorriquenos for pernicious anemia (his research Arbeit), after again that evening giving his blood (six quarts in all) to anemic natives, Dr. Rhoads lost his temper. To work off his anger he wrote a personal letter which included the above quotation. That made him feel better. So he threw...
Long before they reached the surface again they had signalled failure. Planes went aloft, could see nothing. The sea grew rougher. Minesweepers moved back and forth, touched something, found it was a wreck. All that day and night the search went on. All day, all night, news was flashed to the cities of Britain. Sir Bolton sent a telegram to wives of married members of the crew: "We regret to inform you that your husband is missing and is feared drowned. . . ." Thomas Morris' wife read her telegram, waited at the post office for another...