Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Johnson Immigration Bill by a vote...
...field may be "rejuvenated" by a new water-flooding process which has been demonstrated practically in the fields of Bradford, McKeesport and Murraysville, Pa. In time the wells may refill and produce several times the quantity originally furnished. At Houston, Tex., the process was described by Roswell H. Johnson, well-known eugenist and professor of oil and gas production in the University of Pittsburgh, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Engineers. The water is let into an old well; it spreads out through the saturated oil sands and shales, driving the oil ahead to other wells...
Many times has the Presidential boom of Hiram W. Johnson been wrecked in the prevision of political correspondents. But never had it come so close to annihilation as it did before a Michigan Central freight train...
...aged 70, was admitted to the Bar in 1877. He served as chairman of the World's Congress on Jurisprudence and Law Reform in 1893; in 1906 was President of the Association of American Law Schools; is the author of numerous law treatises; was associate editor of Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia; has contributed to the American Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. He has always been active in M. E. Church affairs...
...friend not to recognize the many weaknesses, eccentricities and faults that go hand in hand with genius; these she has faithfully recounted. The London Times ranks this biography as "fit to stand, if not beside at least in the shadow of Boswell's immortal portrait of Samuel Johnson...