Word: albrecht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornell's brilliant, Alsatian-born astrophysicist Hans Albrecht Bethe thus elaborated his already famed theory of the source of stellar energy (TIME, Feb. 27, 1939) in a lecture under the auspices of Sigma Xi, national science honor society, now published...
Chicago-born Alfred Wallenstein is the fifth-great-grandnephew of famed General Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, who made history by his fighting in the Thirty Years' War, which ruined Europe a good bit more than World War II to date. When he was eight, Alfred asked for a bicycle, could find none with a coaster brake, so picked a shiny cello in Lyon & Healy's window. He became a prodigy, at 15 toured with Dancer Anna Pavlova, later played with the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, was first cellist of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under...
Woodcuts, printed from wooden blocks in which designs have been cut with knives and gouges (a favorite method of 16th-century German Albrecht Dürer and the Japanese printmakers...
Baron von Thermann went to the German Embassy to stay with Ambassador Baron Wilhelm Albrecht von Schoen. Soon two other German diplomats arrived: Minister to Peru Dr. Eduard Willy Noebel and Minister to Bolivia Dr. Ernst Wendler. Then Baron von Thermann left Santiago, carrying a suitcase many pounds lighter...
German F, by contrast, leans over backward to avoid touching on present-day Germany. It sticks closely to the cultural and political history of Germany in the "good old days" of the minnesingers, Albrecht Durer, Frederick the Great, and perhaps Bismarck. (The German Club does the same thing, of course...