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Dates: during 1920-1929
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* Not to be confused with Captain John K. Robison, retired, who, as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Engineering in 1921, recommended leasing the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome oil reserves.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Annapolis Change | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Brains. The brains of three brilliant scientists, Sir William Osier, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Sylvester Morse, were earnestly examined by Dr. Henry Herbert Donaldson of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia. He hoped these mighty mentalities had left some physical traces on the twisted convolutions of their brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Washington | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

The film is also well adapted to the revue. One is thankful that he can turn to the refreshing scenery of the Ozarks after the dazzling artificiality of the stage programme. Harold Bell Wright's "Shepherd of the Hills" is much better in film form than as a novel, because...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/28/1928 | See Source »

In the course of Icarus, they went through the air to Athens, the place he never reached. The little hills and the brilliant city grew into the darkness under them. They landed at six in the evening and had a bitter wine with their dinner. They made a journey which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Westward | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

For 15 maddening minutes the engine "rested," then Koehl gave her the gun, Fitzmaurice waved, and five tons of man, hope, and machinery lumbered down the long runway. Once they rose and bumped, but, with the ditch in sight, the Bremen took the air, swung sharply to the right to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Dublin to Labrador | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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