Word: berg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have recently been buying and admiring TIME and on reading the March 7 issue, I was amazed to see that you had made the stupid error of treating the name of Berg as a Jewish name...
Died. Harry ("Berg") Berglund, 21, Minneapolis light heavyweight boxer; in Minneapolis; of a fall received from a blow in his first professional bout. His death was the second in two days from boxing, the other being that of Charles Pegulihan, French light heavyweight; in Hartford, Conn...
Engaged. Prince Max von Hohen-berg, son of Serbian Archduke Francis Ferdinand (whose murder was the immediate cause of the World War); to Countess Elizabeth Van Waldburg-Wolfegg...
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Destroying icebergs is dangerous work. Usually a small boat puts off from the cutter carrying high explosives, which are planted at accessible spots. Sometimes, though, overhanging ledges threaten to snap off with cold, pitiless destruction. Here mines are floated down. Often a berg is too enormous to destroy; one has been sighted 65 feet _ high, 1690 feet long, with an estimated content of 36,000,000 tons of ice, of which about 8/9 was. under water out of view. In such cases the guard cutter can only follow until the mass "calves," lets small chunks break off. These accompany...