Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Embracing Berlin and 38 million of the 62 million German population...
...might have gone back to Dresden where she first sang in opera, to Hamburg, where Herr Heink had died and left her alone with five small children, to scrub and cook, to sing for five dollars a performance. Yes, Hamburg had its memories, but then so had Vienna and Berlin and Bayreuth. So had cities all over...
Correspondence from the Düsseldorf meeting of the Association of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (TIME, Oct. 4), described: in Berlin, the construction of two complete railway trains out of aluminum alloyed with lithium, which weighs one-fifth as much as aluminum and adds tensile strength; in Amsterdam, the isolation and administration of a specific hormone (ductless gland secretion) responsible for the physiology of female animals, by Professor Edward Laqueur, who called his find "menformon." The effect upon female laboratory animals: restored typical mating reactions in spayed (sterilized) specimens; enlarged organs; sped up physiological reactions. Administered to males...
Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher of India: "Reaching Berlin on what I said might be my last European tour (for I am 65), I deprecated the notion that there, is in the Orient a 'Yellow Peril,' save in the sense that Christian civilizations in the West, crumbling now, might commit suicide, while the Orient will survive always...
Back from Peking came two superplanes to their home in Berlin. Their pilots told the Deutsche Lufthansa (Air League) that not even the Ural Mountains had been an obstacle to an eight weeks' roundtrip; that a passenger route to Peking was perfectly practicable, to be flown in stages with a total of six or seven days in the air. The Lufthansa promptly advertised a provisional service of 40 Berlin-Peking flights for next summer, perhaps with branch lines to Vladivostok and Shanghai...