Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...m.p.h., one pound of thrust equals one "thrust horsepower." * Spruce, tweedy Whittle, 41, comes nearest to being the inventor of the turbojet. Recently the British Labor government, with a grand Old Regime gesture, handed him a tax-free thank you of ?100,000. *Pronounced mack. Named after Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach...
Both boys had been born subjects of Austria, but neither liked Habsburg rule. Rather than serve in the Austrian army, John Benes had emigrated to the U.S., where he became a cabinetmaker. His younger brother Eduard stayed behind to help build the new nation of Czechoslovakia...
...mangy creature, Oskar Kokoschka, was only 24 at the time (1911), but he was already storming his shocking way to the top of the Viennese art world. "Our art is being ruined by good taste," the young Austrian rebels had said; Kokoschka had set out to save art from that ruination. He was a wild and moody young man, a writer in his spare time of wild and moody plays that set the audience to battling with umbrellas in the aisles...
...children can be considered healthy; in Poland, 30% of the children under seven have rickets; 90% of Rumanian children have bad teeth. Tuberculosis, hunger's fellow traveler, is up everywhere: 1% of Europe's children have active tuberculosis, two-thirds of them are tuberculin positives. Among Austrian school children, tuberculosis has increased 35% between...
...manners became fashionable in big-time tennis after World War I. Suzanne Lenglen and Big Bill Tilden set the style -and the pace. One day on the French Riviera, so the story goes, a hot-tempered Austrian almost outdid everybody when he won a tournament; openly sneering at the tiny silver trophy that was presented to him, he set it down in midcourt and squashed it flat with a roller. Last week, in Paris, tomboyish Patricia Canning Todd, No. 4 among U.S. women players, did her bit to keep the tradition alive...