Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winters ago there arrived in the U. S. a Russian scientist, one Leon Sergeievitch Theremin (pronounced Termin), with an invention whereby he claimed music could be made with a wave of the hand. Had not strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have attended his demonstrations in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). But many of the curious went. They saw a slender, tense person of some 30 years take his stand unaffectedly before an instrument resembling a radio set. Then he adjusted plugs and dials on the box (by which timbre was varied...
From the Sorbonne, Paris, France Monsieur Leon Robin, Professor of Ancien Philosophie, comes to Harvard to lecture during the first half year on Plato's Symposium and the philosophy of Plato. Wolfgang Liepe will come from the University of Kiel to lecture on the life and work of Hebbel and to give a graduate course in the poetry of the 18th century in Germany...
...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...
...York. Herman Rittner (alias John De Leon, John Bennett, John Meyers, Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year...
...help any man do his diplomatic duty. Baltimore and Washington, Berlin and Buenos Aires, Paris and The Hague knew her well-a woman of striking appearance, rich, gracious, restless, energetic, vitalizer of many a new "movement." She, more than any other, was responsible for the U. S. vogue of Leon Bakst (1866-1925), brilliant Russian artist and stage designer. She brought him to her Baltimore home, there set him to work designing a private theatre, decorating it in the modern Russian style. Bakst decorations spread to include other features of her home, some of her costumes. To her theatre...