Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...YEARS OF BILLIARDS-Willie Hoppe. Edited by J. E. Crozier-Putnam ($2.00). * Other famed brothers in sport are: Robert and Emil Meusel, Stanley and Harry Coveleskie, Jesse and Virgil Barnes, James and "Doc" Johnston, baseballers; Howard and Robert Kinsey, tennis players; Stanislaus and Wladek Zbyszko, wrestlers; Benjamin and Joseph Leonard, Peter and John Zivc, Thomas and Michael Gibbons, boxers...
...Leonard D.S.O., associate of the Reverend P. B. Clayton, founder of the "Toc H" movement, will hold office hours for all members of the University, this evening and Wednesday. He will be in Russell 13 beginning at 7 o'clock tonight and Wednesday from 2 to 6 to explain the "Toc H" movement to any men who are interested...
...Harvard representatives, who arrived here today, are Winthrop Wetherby '26, treasurer, and J. N. Leonard '25, associate editor of the Advocate...
...Leonard began his experiments with carbolic acid, which, as is well known, kills disease germs and man with equal despatch. To resorcinol (very similar to carbolic acid) certain "fatty" acids were linked. The result was, at first, both an excellent antiseptic and a deadly poison. As the molecular proportion was changed, the antiseptic properties increased, the poisonous effect diminished. At last, with great difficulty, six atomical groups of the acids were united with the resorcinol, hexylresorcinol formed...
Warily, Dr. Leonard administered some of this fluid to a rabbit. The small creature lived. He took. some himself, survived. His attendants each swallowed their doses, were not harmed. Then the antiseptic was administered in some cases of kidney disease in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Within 48 hours, these cases were cured totally and, to all appearances, permanently. A committee of 15 learned gentlemen from the National Research Council was appointed to conduct further investigation...