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In 1922 A. Hoyt Taylor and Leo C. Young, researchers working with the U. S. Navy, discovered that when radio waves were broadcast at 60 MHz it was possible to determine the range and bearing of nearby ships in the Potomac River.
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The date was June 20, 1922.
These publications replaced the U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin, published continuously from 1907 through 1959, as well as the Navy's Hospital Corps Quarterly and the Bulletin of the U. S. Army Medical Department, published from 1922 to 1949.
This connection was clarified by Smith and Smith ( 1922 ), who showed that saline extracts of fresh bovine pituitary glands could re-activate the atrophied thyroids of hypophysectomised tadpoles.
In 1922 a continuous registration of the whole indigenous population was instituted by ordinance of the Governor-General, and the periodic compilation of these records was ordered.
As Simmel ( 1908 ) and Dilthey ( 1922 ) indicated, questions of whether the value of life is individual or social are not questions, but assertions of faith made to appear as legitimate questions.
Those were his only interludes behind bars, although he collected four more charges on his police record in 1921 and 1922, three for burglary and one for robbery.
On the occasion of his 1922 indictment the $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman, and the charge was nolle prossed.
In 1922, the United Mine Workers struck the Coronado Coal Company.
After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood.
He made use of the time by undertaking far more intensive fieldwork than had been done by British anthropologists, and his classic ethnography, Argonauts of the Western Pacific ( 1922 ) advocated an approach to fieldwork that became standard in the field: getting " the native's point of view " through participant observation.
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown also published a seminal work in 1922.
* In 1922, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho were the first to cross the South Atlantic in an airship.
The Stern – Gerlach experiment of 1922 provided further evidence of the quantum nature of the atom.
* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )
* 1922 – The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways ( d. 2006 )
* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )
The first mention of " The Ashes " in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack occurs in 1905, while Wisdens first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition.
* 1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50, 000 people.
* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )
* 1922 – Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor ( d. 2006 )
* 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
* 1922 – Charles I of Austria ( b. 1887 )
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James Hoyt Wilhelm ( July 26, 1922 – August 23, 2002 ) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.
Logo of Funk and Wagnalls from a 1922 edition of Jehiel Keeler Hoyt | Hoyt's Cyclopedia of Quotations.
The BNSF Railway owns the bridge, and the 5. 1 denotes the distance in miles from Portland's Union Station or from the nearby North Bank Depot ( or Hoyt Street Depot ), which was the Portland terminus of SP & S passenger service coming via this bridge until 1922.
Hoyt Stoddard Curtin ( September 9, 1922 – December 3, 2000 ) was an American composer and music producer, the primary musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with The Ruff & Reddy Show in 1957 until his retirement in 1986, except from 1963 – 1973, when the primary music director was Ted Nichols.
* Taboo ( 1922 play ), a 1922 play by Mary Hoyt Wiborg
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1922, in Ian Christie, Richard Taylor eds.
* William Desmond Taylor ( 1872 – 1922 ), director
They were installed in Harkness Tower in 1922 and were first rung by John Taylor on June 9, 1922.
Taylor was born in Keytesville, Missouri and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922.
* Peter Taylor ( editor ) ( 1922 – 1997 ), English film editor, winner of an Academy Award for Film Editing
* Charles Taylor ( physicist ) ( 1922 – 2002 ), British physicist and lecturer
* C. I. Taylor ( 1875 – 1922 ), co-founder of the Negro National League
Born in Ottawa, Ontario into a wealthy family, Taylor attended Ashbury College and graduated from Montreal's McGill University in 1922 with a Bachelor of Science degree.
John Thomas Haig subsequently became their parliamentary leader, and Fawcett Taylor was chosen as the official party leader in early 1922.
* Col. Fawcett G. Taylor, April 5, 1922 – March 1933
* Richard R. Taylor ( 1922 – 1978 ), American surgeon general
William Desmond Taylor ( 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922 ) was an Irish-born American director and actor.
At 7: 30 am on the morning of 2 February 1922, the body of William Desmond Taylor was found inside his bungalow at the Alvarado Court Apartments, 404-B South Alvarado Street, in the Westlake Park area of downtown Los Angeles, which was then known as a trendy and affluent neighbourhood.
She was involved in scandal due to the 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor, who she professed her love for.
In 1922, Taylor was murdered in his home, a two-story bungalow apartment on Alvarado Street, at the southeast corner of Alvarado and Maryland Street, in the Westlake area of Los Angeles.
Throughout the 1920s her name was linked with widely publicized scandals including the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor and the 1924 shooting of Courtland S. Dines, who was shot by Normand's chauffeur with her pistol.
* Alec Taylor, Jr. – First Spear ( 1914 ), Tomatina ( 1919 ), Lady Ava ( 1920 ), Blue Lady ( 1921 ), Leighon Tor ( 1922 ), Maid of Bath ( 1924 )
* Alec Taylor, Jr. – Love Wisely ( 1897 ), Sceptre ( 1903 ), Sancy ( 1907 ), Lemberg ( 1910 ), Trois Temps ( 1914 ), Prince Chimay ( 1918 ), Lady Juror ( 1922 ), Inkerman ( 1923 ), Book Law ( 1927 )
He stepped down as provincial Conservative leader just before the 1922 provincial election, and was replaced by Taylor.
He ran for the party's leadership in April 1922, but was defeated by Major Fawcett Taylor.
Fawcett Gowler Taylor ( April 29, 1878 – January 1, 1940 ) was a Manitoba politician, and was the leader of that province's Conservative Party from 1922 to 1933.
) Taylor was defeated for re-election in 1922 by Democrat Austin Peay ; he was the last Republican chief executive of the state for almost half a century.
Note: William Desmond Taylor died in early February 1922, thus any photographic image of this individual in life was made before his death, is a pre-1923 image and is therefore by definition in the public domain.
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