Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illness and is looking for a job when the World War breaks out. He unheroically volunteers (he has flat feet). To his great surprise he is accepted, goes to training camp, then to the front, is captured by the Russians, and, in company with thousands of German and Austrian prisoners, is sent from one prison camp to another, finally landing in Siberia. There, for almost six years, he stays...
Keen wit and undeniable ability kept Unser Anton on active service long past the legal age for retirement. Once another Austrian Archduke attempted to suggest that it was time for him to retire...
...house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes with his "pencil"-a childishly simple high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery...
...time by the number of cats in the backyard and, observing six, declares it to be "five after one." But these gaucheries and the stiffness of many of the cast may be forgotten if you submit yourself to the best musical score on Broadway, the creation of a little Austrian kapellmeister whose farewell concert in London (1849) was followed by a triumphal exodus on a fleet of barges down the Thames when he heard, for almost the last time, the strains of his own "Blue Danube" ringing in his ears...
...completion will be a matter of decades rather than years. Harvard may well be proud of being represented among the leaders in the movement and the new Institute has opportunity to make a valuable contribution. It is especially fortunate to have at its head Professor Redlich, whose experience as Austrian Minister of Finance and as Professor of Public Law at the University of Vienna quality him from both the administrative and the academic point of view and make him an admirable leader for the new undertaking...