Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scadta ("Colombian-German Air Transport Corporation") headed by smart, efficient Herr P. P. Bauer, is probably the only unsubsidized passenger and freight air service in the world which is showing a really handsome profit. All the great European air lines are state-subsidized and relatively cheap (Paris to Berlin-eight hours-$50). Colombians are glad to pay relatively dear ($200) to be flown from the Atlantic to Bogota in eight hours, when the boat trip ($80) takes from eight to sixteen days, according to the state of the river. Only by air could Mr. & Mrs. Hoover drop briefly...
Professor Pratt has had a varied career as student, teacher, author, and traveller. After taking an A. B. at Williams, and an A. M. at Harvard he studied for a year at the Columbia Law School and the University of Berlin, after which he took a Ph.D. at Harvard...
...learned to speak Italian perfectly and German with an Italian accent. There is no anecdote to account for his becoming an actor; he merely decided to be one and began to play in Prague, with Angelo Neumann's stock company. Later, he decided to go to Berlin and there he met Max Reinhardt...
Geheimrat von Opel issued vigorous denials. But Berlin newsgatherers heard and published that the price paid by G. M. for Opel would...
...Berlin, one Maurice Eisenberg, U. S. 'cellist, played a program of French composers, won enviable notice...