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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest that would be fitted to a production machine until the 1980s--chugged it along at 30 m.p.h. Motorcycle technology advanced so quickly under the spell of the fin-de-siecle obsession with heroic speed that only 13 years later, in 1907, the future aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss was able to put an eight-cylinder engine in a truss frame of metal tubes and go rocketing through a measured mile in Florida at 136 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Going Out On The Edge | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...manufacture and whose use would be economically feasible only in the developed world, it may be more cost effective to immunize poultry and swine against avian and swine (and possibly human) H and N flu antigens to eliminate the reservoirs for antigenic reassortment and thus 1918-type epidemics. ROY CURTISS III, Professor of Biology Washington University St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1998 | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Developed by biologist Roy Curtiss III of Washington University in St. Louis, the vaccine is a weakened form of salmonella that allows the bird's defenses to fight off infections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Fight Salmonella, E. coli | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

After graduating from Harvard with a magnacum laude degree in music, Levin was hired bythe late pianist Rudolph Serkin to head the musictheory department of the Curtiss Institute ofPhiladelphia. He left the Institute to take aposition as professor of music theory and chambermusic at the State University of New York (SUNY)at Purchase...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Celebrated Pianist Accepts Position With Music Faculty | 2/28/1992 | See Source »

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