Word: adriane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior Sixteen are as follows: Charles G. Swain, whose field is Chemistry; Joseph N. Ball, Jr., Engineering Sciences; Israel H. Scheinberg, Bio-chemistry; Isadore N. Rosenberg, Bio-chemistry; Adrian J. P. LaRue, Music; Thomas V. Healey, Romance Languages; Enno R. Hobbing, History and Literature...
Remarkably sensitive to aerial noises, the electroencephalograph, while attached to a patient's head, may sometimes pick up short-wave radio programs. Classic is the accident which happened to famed British Neurologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, who once hitched an amplifier to a brain recorder, for a wholesale broadcast of brain waves to an auditorium full of his colleagues. To his horror the electroencephalograph blared out God Save the King. In confusion, half the neurologists rose, half remained seated...
...Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything but itself, good-by to culture." Soon the tempest in a Tarnhelm reached the august portals of British Broadcasting Corp., where wax-mustached Conductor Sir Adrian Boult solemnly clucked: "The BBC contemplates no ban on any musical work by reason of its composer's nationality. BBC's concern is to provide good musical programs...
...seeded list for the national lawn tennis singles had mostly sophomores instead of Titans-listless Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker; Joe Hunt, Jack Kramer, Don Mc-Neill, Gil Hunt, Elwood Cooke. The foreign seedings might as well have stopped with Australians Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist...
...tournament for the Men's Singles became a three-front battle between Riggs and the two top-ranking Australians : young, ambidextrous John Bromwich (whom Riggs had 1-2-3'd on the first day of the Davis Cup matches) and seasoned, smart Adrian Quist (who had beaten Riggs on the last day of the matches...