Word: ivan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Convened in Sanders Theatre were the world's foremost physiologists. Most notable were Russia's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, "dean of the profession," 1904 Nobel Prizewinner for research on the salivary glands; Denmark's August Krogh, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for physiology of the capillaries; England's Archibald Vivian Hill, 1922 Nobel Prizewinner for research of muscular contraction; Belgium's Leon Fredericq, president of the second (1892) Congress. Present too were U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming and Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
People who contribute to newspaper columns are very free with their signatures. Some make free with great names, sign themselves "Napoleon," "George Washington," "Calvin Coolidge." Others make free to be funny and call themselves names like Oscar Zilch, Wilton F. Cassowary, Ivan Offalitch. Conductor Harry Irving Phillips of the "Sun Dial" in the New York Evening Sun, did not think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare...
...Ivan Skripnik took up the knife. Gregory Romashevsky said: "I am strangely torn between the desire of my soul for heaven, and the desire of my body for earth. Please pray once more...
...Ivan Skripnik slowly laid down the knife, prayed again. Gregory Romashevsky's mental conflict ceased, he desired to live. Springing up, he plunged the sacrificial knife into Ivan Skripnik and also into Igor Serednitzky. Both were dead when Soviet police arrived...
...This year Rothert broke that record twice in one sunshiny afternoon. Krenz came second with 50 ft. 5/8 in. Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard, intercollegiate title holder, ran two miles in 9 min., 22 sec., breaking a record set ten years ago by Cornell's Ivan C. Dresser. Southern California's Jesse Hill broad-jumped 25 ft. 7/8 in., another intercollegiate record. Yale's Sidney Kieselhorst, champion last year, did the 220-yd. low hurdles in 23 3/10 sec., breaking a record which had stood since 1898-almost. Officials refused to allow Kieselhorst his record because...