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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That certain cells in the ear of a cat generate electricity has been proved in tests conducted at the Medical School by Dr. Hallowell Davis '13, assistant professor of Physiology. It has been known since 1930 that there was electricity generated in the bodies of most mammals, but until recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electricity Generated in Cat's Ear Is Measured, Heard at Medical School | 12/11/1934 | See Source »

5-4-4. Except that no delegation went home, the London Naval Parley (TIME, Oct. 22) seemed last week to have reached the crack-up stage. The British Government, after flirting for weeks with all kinds of Japanese proposals, appeared at last to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Aggression or Defense? | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

To the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, William O'Brien is Public Enemy No. 1. For the past four years U.S.L.T.A. has watched Mr. O'Brien woo away from amateurism the cream of the nation's tennis crop. Last year his prize catch was Ellsworth Vines. With Vines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pastime Into Profession | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

The chief threat to amateur tennis is a man of jovial mien. Plump Bill O'Brien was born 39 years ago in Manhattan. He took up professional baseball, became an accountant, was rejected by the Army because of poor eyesight, squeaked through a second examination to become the champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pastime Into Profession | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Charles Dana Gibson, a huge man with a bald head, an eagle beak and a Gladstone collar, has admitted that his Gibson Girl was a composite picture of the three famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia. Sister Irene, Artist Gibson married. Sister Nancy married Lord Astor, now sits in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Forty Years After | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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