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Research experts pushed out another eye-opening original experiment in the field of Biology. Stanley Miler and Harold Usey received the nod for their study dealing with the synthesis of anime-acids in considerable quanities by the passage of an electric spark through a mixture of methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water. This awesome experiment appears to be the first demonstration of the production of organic building blocks from inorganic molecules. "Critically significant," says Carrol Williams, professor of Biology, "because it is the first experiment as to how much complicated molecules required for the evolution of life came into being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey Discloses 1953 Was Big Year For Intellectuals; Events Include Fakes, Finds | 2/3/1954 | See Source »

...Melbourne, after Australian Miler John Landy had again come within a second of the world record with a 4:02.4 clocking, Finnish Champion Denis Johansson gasped: "Landy is magnificent. I have never seen anything like it. On a first-class cinder track and with good opposition he could run a 3:55 mile." Landy promptly announced that he will make a U.S. and European tour this spring and summer once he gets firm invitations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...team will be trying for the Harvard record of 3:20.6 tomorrow, but it has little chance of running away with the race. They will face a stronger Princeton team, and a Yale team which has been strengthened by the addition of a half-miler, Mike Stanley, from their scratched two-mile relay team. Stanley is considered one of the finest half-milers in the East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Relay Team Seeks Record In B.A.A. Meet Tomorrow | 1/29/1954 | See Source »

...Boston, Olympic 1,5000-meter Champion Josef Barthel of Luxembourg, now a graduate student at Harvard, made an impressive U.S. debut as a miler: 4:10.3 clocking as he beat FBI-Man Fred Wilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...Melbourne, Australian Miler John Landy, aiming for a world record four-minute mile, came within a breathtaking two seconds of it in 4:02, just six-tenths off Gunder Hagg's record of 1945. Plainly discouraged, Landy said, "I've done as well as I can. I'm running for fun from now on. If I do the four-minute mile, it will be a fluke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 21, 1953 | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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