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Unique, extraordinary, and inestimably valuable,--these were some of the comments passed on the Harvard Bureau of Business Research by prominent members of the shoe industry who have just returned from the annual National Shoe Retailers' Convention at Chicago, when a CRIMSON reporter asked for their opinions...
Professor Lamb was director of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory at Washington, where the catalyst was developed, during and after...
...reporting the annual Treasury Department supply bill. The cut reduces the sum from $149,000 to $25,000. This will involve termination of all coperative activities between the Federal Government and the various states, of activities in the field force of the U. S. Public Health Service, of research at Hot Springs, and of the widespread educational campaign carried on since the War. The action limiting coöperative activities with the various states is in accord with the policy recently announced by President Coolidge to discontinue all subsidies to states as economically unsound and undesirable...
...what he called "the mechanistic conception of life." And because Loeb lived in the age of rigorously experimental biology, he contributed far more to the scientific verification of materialistic theories than did the greatest iconoclasts of an earlier day. The thesis to which he 'devoted his life of research might be stated briefly thus: "The activities as well as the origins of all living organisms, including human beings, are determined and motivated by physicochemical forces in their environments or inheritance." His experiments in support of this lay in two main directions...
...Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim to fame is probably the establishment, through a gift of $500,000, of the Engineering Foundation, a joint research agency of the "big four" national engineering societies?civil, mechanical, electrical, mining-and-metallurgical...