Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bruno Paul, famed German modernist architect, onetime Director of the Imperial Academy of Arts, reached the U. S. on the German liner Columbus, last week, and told that he has just been commissioned to erect "Berlin's first skyscraper" (12 stories...
...Berlin: The Symphony of a Big City. Here is a film without plot, without subtitles. A pool of limpid water is transformed into a mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open...
...between India and Europe would be simply to extend across Afghanistan the lines which already come up from India and down from Russia to the very borders of King Amanullah's realm. Although funds for such a project are not immediately in prospect, His Majesty arranged while in Berlin to have two German engineering firms make preliminary surveys of these routes...
...Berlin, Erich Kleiber, chief conductor of the State Opera, refused to take a five-year contract with the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. He took the advice of the Prussian Minister of Fine Arts, anticipated another successful season in Berlin...
That air-minded steamship line, the North German Lloyd-it was one of the backers of the flight of the Bremen-announced last week the "first air cruise in history." It will begin in the middle of September at Bremen, cover Europe between Bremen, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Paris, London, allowing passengers stopovers to attend the International Aeronautical Exhibition and the great plane factories of the Continent. North German Lloyd advertised: ". . . Luxurious giant transports of the air ... official receptions all along the route ... all expenses on land, water and air included . . . $1,290 up ... reduced rates for aeronautic students . . . September...