Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excitement cf the populace was severe and the involuntary surge of the crowd as it tried to prolong its last look at the majesty of the funeral pomp caused women to shriek and faint. (U. S. newspapers attributed this erroneously to "the bursting of emotion pent up beyond endurance." Berlin crowds, as is well known, are not so hysterical...
Professor Wolfgang Koehler, director of the Psychological Institute of the University of Berlin, who spent seven years on the island of Teneriffe to study the psychology of the anthropoid apes of the island, is visiting the University this weekend as the guest of the Department of Psychology...
...young Jews of America", said Mr. Lipsky, who has just been making a study of the conditions of the society in Europe, "are not nearly so elert or willing to help the cause as those of other countries. I have seen a Zionist meeting in Berlin at which fully 500 Jews must have been present. In the back of the room were about 200 students who, when the officers of the society entered, arose and saluted, so anxious were they to be of any possible help. In America I find not nearly so much cooperation, either among the students...
Professor Walz, who has studied at the University of Berlin, took his A. B. degree at Northwestern University in 1892 and his Ph.D. five years later at Harvard. A member of the Modern Language Association of America and of the Folk Lore Society, he is known as an author for his numerous contributions to philological journals...
...From Berlin came a report of sucfessful tests of a metal noncollapsible diving suit. The suit has a metal body built solidly like the conning tower of a submarine, and flexible aluminum arms and legs. The air pressure within is kept normal,* and the air purified and replenished chemically...