Word: tilney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match of the afternoon yesterday was the number one singles, in which Captain Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35 defeated Tilney, who was favored to win. Jones dropped the first set 4-6. Steadying in the second he sailed through 6-2. The third was started off with Jones breaking through Tilney's service after having taken his own easily. Then Tilney pulled up to 3 all; four all, 5-4, and Jones broke through again to take the match...
Professor Frederick Tilney, brain specialist who is overseeing the training of the twins, sees in the accomplishments of Florie and Margie, Johnny and Jimmy continuation of his observations on nerve growth. A baby is not born with a fully developed brain or with nerves fully developed to carry messages from the out-side world to the brain. As the brain and nerves ripen, the infant becomes able to learn more & more useful things...
...icebox. Doctors who will doubtless follow the Woods twins for many a year hope to have this question answered: Will the present differences between Johnny and Jimmy persist as they go through kindergarten, school and workaday life? There has been no scientific evidence one way or another. Professor Frederick Tilney, Dr. McGraw's supervisor in the experiment, last week doubted that Johnny's present advantage would last long...
...Miles (Y) defeated Whitbeek 6-4, 6-1; Helmholz defeated Wardman (Y), 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; Wilkinson defeated Carlisle (Y) 6-0, 3-6, 6-1; Glidden defeated McMurty (Y) 6-3, 6-2; Rodman defeated Reese (Y) 6-3, 6-1; Bryan defeated Tilney (Y) 6-4, 6-2; Hartford defeated Hixon...
...dull, companion in his "act," his twin brother Jimmy. Precocious Johnny and normal Jimmy put on their performance at Manhattan's Babies Hospital. Manager was Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw, jolly assistant director of the Normal Child Development Clinic of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. Impresario was Professor Frederick Tilney, learned director of research at the Neurological Institute. Although Professor Tilney urgently needs money for essential researches at the Neurological Institute and Johnny's father, who is temporarily a taxidriver, and Johnny's mother, who was a telephone operator, urgently need money for family expenses, neither the parents...