Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Giannini has just returned from a concert tour in Europe, where the music world of Paris, London and Berlin acclaimed her as one of the greatest living sopranos. She is an American born and lives in Brooklyn, New York, although she has spent many years in study abroad...
...down Germany, inspecting this garrison, that fort, this ship, that dye factory, to see that armament was not being amassed contrary to the Treaty of Versailles. While the so potent officers have been motoring up and down the land, their headquarters, the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission at Berlin, has hummed with the click of typewriters, and reverberated to the tread of generals. All this has cost Germans a pretty penny? $15,000,000 in money and much in wounded pride. It was swept away last week. And one of the Allied officers, an Italian, who could not bear...
...Berlin, Dr. L. Schoenbauer examined his ten dogs speculatively; drained off the fluid from their spinal columns; replaced the fluid with air. Then he patiently hit each dog on the head with a hammer, and in each case the dog died of concussion of the brain...
...Berlin, one Dr. Troska took a sharp knife, placed it on a piece of beefsteak, exerted a pressure of 800 pounds, thereby calculated the amount of energy necessary for each human chew of meat. A dog, said he, expends energy equal to 3,200 pounds in biting through a bone. Scientists scoffed, said that Chewer-Experimenter Troska was wasting his time...
...Brookline, Mass. His great work was a painstaking history of the U. S. which appeared intermittently between 1893 and 1920, and finally emerged in a revised edition of eight volumes: A History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaigns of 1896. The Berlin Academy of Science awarded him the Loubat prize in 1901, and in 1918 he won the Pulitzer prize for history...