Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge is of course sorry to lose the big Lever executive offices and research laboratories which, together, furnished 1300 jobs. But the firm's manufacturing plant of 1500 workers will stay right on in Cambridge and even expand itself somewhat. Moreover, it looks as if the Lever offices and Laboratories won't be idle for long...
Though the government set up a commission to investigate the find, hardly anyone doubted its authenticity. The Bank of Mexico's research laboratories announced that the documents which led to the unearthing of Cuauhtemoc's bones were indeed 400 years old, and that the ink, writing and signature on them appeared genuine. Leading archaeologists agreed. Crowds of tourists began to make the five-hour trip over rock-strewn roads from Taxco to the Ixcateopan church, where they goggled at a few shoe boxes full of bone fragments and the copper disc found under the altar bearing the inscription...
People in public health and research work generally do a plodding, worthwhile, unspectacular job that the public never hears about. To give deserved credit to outstanding workers in these fields, the American Public Health Association, since 1946, has presented the annual Lasker Awards ($500 to $2,500 in cash, plus a silver or gold statuette of the Winged Victory). This year's winners, announced this week...
...causes of cancer, many scientists still accept "rather sterile concepts," Dr. Hueper said. Among them he listed the theories that cancer gets started by chronic irritation and that it is the product of heredity. Both, he said, are supported by evidence of "doubtful value," and both may cause researchers to ignore a wide field of potentially valuable research in preventing the disease. Dr. Hueper's main point: almost every known cancer-producing agent can be traced to environment, particularly certain processes of modern industries...
...Yale's American School of Oriental Research, scholars' eyes popped as the examination progressed: the ancient Hebrew manuscripts, written in Aramaic, appeared to be Old Testament writings dating back more than 2,000 years to the 2nd Century B.C. If the estimate was right, the scrolls were the world's oldest texts from biblical times...