Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...damage that Lieutenant Douglas Johnson had to report was financial. To make a landing, he had to valve his helium; the cost was about $14,400, since the gas is valued at approximately $80 per 1,000 cu. ft. Totally deflated, the TC3 was ignominiously brought back to Scott Field on an Army truck...
About the year 1911, May Irwin, famed comedienne, introduced to Manhattan one of these levee-songs, The Bully. Musical critics noted the arrival of ragtime. James Weldon Johnson (now Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) announced in print that ragtime had musical possibilities. He further observed that the original ragtime tunes were Negro folk songs set down by composers, a statement supported by the fact that all the first popular songs in this tempo treated Negro subjects in negroid English...
PROFESSOR - Stanley Johnson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). At Vanderbilt University, they well recall young Instructor Johnson. He has turned novelist since he left the English Faculty, but still lives in Nashville, Tenn. Reading his gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall of the soul of Dr. J. Tanksley Parkhurst, who took his Chaucer and his reputation seriously enough to become Dean, is staged at Thurston College, New England; but the winters are mild, the "you-alls" plentiful. Vanderbilt will take it personally. At other colleges, if the book is read, more...
...Johnson 1G.B...
Crew X--Stroke, Robert Winthrop '26; 7, Kent Leavitt '26; 6, J. P. Hubbard '26; 5, G. R. Johnson '25; 4, C. F. Darlington '26; 3, Geoffrey Platt '27; 2, R. W. Ladd '27; bow, S. B. Kelly '25; cox., C. S. Heard...