Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroic King Albert had faced the Germans alone, suddenly deserted by the Great Powers as was Czechoslovakia this week, even the redoubtable Belgian Sovereign might have shown less courage, resourcefulness and firmness than did President Eduard Benes last week. Astonished Prague learned on Wednesday evening from press wires that Neville Chamberlain would fly on Thursday morning to Berchtesgaden, bitterly observed that the violent Sudeten German riots which broke out on Monday night, directly after Hitler's Nürnberg speech, had been quelled by police and gendarmes so effectively that at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday orders went...
...last few years, artificial insemination of human beings has become a highly successful science. Most difficult step has been the finding of suitable proxy fathers. Last week Dr. Ivy Albert Pelzman of Georgetown University School of Medicine said that he is starting an agency for proxy fathers in Washington. Blonds, brunets, redheads, Jews, Catholics and Protestants will be on the list, he said, and a prospective mother can have her child influenced in every physical respect except sex. Heredity and background of all candidates are thoroughly investigated. Since the human male attains his highest fertility during his twenties, Dr. Pelzman...
...Westinghouse Co., gathering material to go into an 800-lb. cupaloy* time capsule which is to be buried 50 feet in the earth on the New York World's Fair site, not to be opened for 5,000 years, collected letters to posterity written by Nobel Prize-winners Albert Einstein, Robert Andrews Millikan, Thomas Mann-and by Grover Aloysius Whalen (Fair Manager). Einstein: ". . . Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror." Mann: "Among you, too, the spirit will fare badly-it should never fare too well on this earth, otherwise men would need...
...Albert N. Blanchard, Paul L. Callan, Philip P. Finn, James A. Hermann, Alan S. Manning, Langdon W. Mead, Andre J. Mendel, Summer A. Pendleton, George E. Peters Jr., Richard F. Rabenold, William G. Tonner Jr., James G. Walsh, Clifford W. Wilson...
Professor of Philosophy here since 1924, Whitehead retired in 1937 at the age of 75. His retirement brought praise for the man from the ends of the earth and deep regret at his leaving. Before his Harvard appointment he taught at Cambridge University and the University of London. With Albert Einstein he did considerable work in the mathematical field, and he is the author of "Principal Mathematica" and "The Principle of Relativity...