Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Gherardi, at present Commandant of the Charlestown Navy Yard, served as naval attache at Berlin at the beginning of the World...
...properly strapped on his spare gasoline supply. After John Wilson got Chicago's Ph. D. in Egyptology, Breasted sent him on an expedition to Luxor as epigrapher. For five years he stayed in Egypt. When the heat grew so intense that even the flies died, he fled to Berlin and Munich for more study, went back to Chicago to become assistant professor of Egyptology, associate professor, scientific secretary of the Institute. Last week the Institute's board announced that John Albert Wilson had been appointed acting director. About July 1 the "acting" will be dropped from his title...
Educated at the Boston Latin School, at Harvard, at Berlin, Santayana became an instructor of philosophy at Harvard at 26, moved freely in academic circles without being intimately known in any. Impersonal, self-contained, he lived modestly in Stoughton Hall, became a member of the brilliant group of Harvard philosophers that included Josiah Royce, William James, George H. Palmer, Hugo Münsterberg. Three times each week he walked to Brookline to visit his mother, who continued to speak Spanish and who was entirely unknown to his Cambridge acquaintances. Occasionally he invited his more promising students to tea, was lionized...
...There was at that time a memorable and tragic hour when even the refugee Romanovs, his cousins, had to be denied visas on which they were to have gone to England on the invitation of George V's impulsive mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra. With thrones creaking from Berlin to Constantinople, the best and wisest British Cabinet members urgently advised the House of Windsor not to attract attention to this question by becoming hosts to the House of Romanov...
Carter and Loomis have spent a good part of the week skiing and getting physically fit for their exams. They have been using the jump at Berlin, New Hampshire in preparation for this Carnival, and also for the Williams Carnival to be held the following weekend...