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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made. These pictures were taken under the auspices of the Harvard Athletic Association and will be shown in the Harvard Clubs throughout the United States. In addition to these pictures, an attempt is being made to secure the three reels of regular and slow motion pictures of Tilden, Johnson, and Lacoste which were shown here with great success last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION TO START SEASON MONDAY | 9/24/1927 | See Source »

Artificial Life. In 1870, Scientist Huxley declared it would be "the height of presumption" to suppose that chemists would not some day be able to bring together the constituents of protoplasm under such conditions that they would assume vital properties. Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale cited sulphur-dwelling bacilli as an example of the sort of artificial life chemists might hope to produce first. These bacilli thrive and multiply in a solution of sulphuric acid, needing no sunlight, prime requisite of most other plants. Self-sufficient in an inorganic environment, these bacteria may have been the link between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Detroit | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

Tilden and Hunter then took the National Championship: 10-8, 6-3, 6-3. Tilden served eight aces; Hunter, one; Williams, one; Johnson, none. Tilden last won a doubles title in 1923 (with Brian Norton). Last year Williams and the then amateur Vincent Richards beat Tilden & A. H. Chapin in the finals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Men's Doubles | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Chicago Civic Opera Company, through Manager Herbert Johnson, proclaimed six additions to its roster, dwelt with some enthusiasm on the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lindbergh-on-the-Ear | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...musical culture from the domination of Europe. On going further, however, their enthusiasm must have been chilled in reading that one of the artists (whose real name is Charles Sikes) felt it advantageous for professional reasons to be designated more lyrically as Mr. Baromeo. Perhaps they recalled that Edward Johnson, celebrated tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, felt obliged to be Eduardo Giovanni until fame came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lindbergh-on-the-Ear | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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