Word: researching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Peeling potatoes, to modern housewives, is a sin. Potato jackets, they firmly believe, are rich in anti-scurvy Vitamin C, while the potato's inside is little more than starch and water. Last month the British Medical Journal laughed at this assertion, referred to some new research of a food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin...
...Joseph Brandt quit the Tribune and took a new job as head of the University of Oklahoma Press. He ran the Press like a city room. Instead of waiting for professors to bring him their ponderous research, he went hunting for interesting authors. Once he chased an author across the continent in a plane to get him to write a book. The book. Wah'Kon-Tah, by John Joseph Mathews, was the first from any university press to be chosen a Book-of-the-Month. After he had turned out several best-sellers at Oklahoma, the Princeton University Press...
...success carried her on to research work in Hawaii and in England, where she tramped the cold, dark streets of the terrible British Black Country, gathering figures, discussing endlessly. From there she went to Geneva, where in 1929 the International Labor Office was digging into its huge work with such high hopes...
Each grew out of research for one that went before. He wrote: "I began to get a sort of broad picture of what had gone on in Maine and New England in the old days. . . . It dawned on me that nobody had ever written it-nobody: not even historians. . . . I believe the experiences of the Northern army are almost without parallel in the history of War; but out of what history can you get an understanding of it? Not out of one damned history. Or out of ten. And if that isn't a show-up for our historians...
History Repeats. It takes Kenneth Roberts about five years to finish a novel, two of which he spends in research (meanwhile finishing another book). He revises his books five or six times, sometimes makes 200 corrections per page, smokes more & more cotton-tufted Parliament cigarets as he gets going. When a novel is all in, so, as a rule, is Author Roberts...