Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Adolph Goldschmidt, recognized as one of the greatest medievalists now living, will come to the University during the first half of next year to give several courses on Medieval Art. Known to scholars all over the world, Professor Goldschmidt is at present teaching at the University of Berlin...
...Finally Germans look with kindling imaginations to their great future in the air. Die Deutsche Luft Hansa, the state-subsidized air trust, flew its 120 planes almost four million miles last year, with some 60,000 passengers. Berlin is already linked by air to London, Paris, Moscow and the Scandinavian capitals. Next summer the German air net will be flung southward, to Madrid, Vienna and (cooperating with the new Italian Aero Lloyd) to Rome. Herr Hermann Mayenberger, operating expert of the Colon Co., Hispano-Zeppelin firm, announces definitely that in the spring of 1928 Zeppelins now building at Friedrichshafen will...
Also last week, news came from Paris that Ernest Rodriguez, 17, onetime employe of the Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, had been apprehended and convicted for a $6000 series of check forgeries beginning at Butte, Mont., and passing through Reno, Denver, Toronto, Montreal, Havana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Lucerne, Naples, Rome, Florence, Nice, Berne, Madrid, back to Paris...
Last week news came of a secret meeting at Paris between five Chinese Ministers, to try and decide from what Chinese faction they would take orders. They were: Chao Hsin-chu (Minister to Rome and Representative before the League); Tcheng-loh (Minister to Paris) ; Wei Cheng-tchean (Berlin) ; Fang King-ky (Brussels) ; and Wang Kuang-ky (The Hague...
...Berlin, Dr. W. Christ, experimenter, stained a quart of water with a harmless blue dye; made a neighbor swallow the full quart. The doctor wanted to know how fast the stomach got rid of the water. So at intervals, he ran a rubber tube down the neighbor's throat to his stomach and drained off a little water. He learned: in 15 minutes half the water was gone, in 30 minutes four-fifths...