Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gasoline is $2 a gallon in Berlin, fat chauffeurs are taboo, owing to the fact that their weight increases running charges. The wealthy now advertise for "short, slim chauffeurs, about the size and weight of jockeys...
...earthenware tablet, long buried in the Middle Eastern section of the Prussian State Museum, has been found to contain the musical notation for a religious hymn. This notation has been deciphered by Dr. Kurt Sachs, Curator of the Collection of Instruments at the Berlin High School for Music. The tablet comes from ancient Assur, capital of Assyria, and was inscribed in cuneiform characters about the year 800 B. C. It contains three columns: The first is the mysterious music; the second, in archaic Sumerian, an account of the creation of Man from the blood of the gods; the third...
...very long ago Hungary was, to the happy masses, simply a place where wars started. Even such tiny fragments of the masses as detached themselves temporarily for cultural adventuring in Europe seldom penetrated the interior as far as Budapest. With London they were theatrically acquainted, with Paris, with Berlin, and even to a slight extent with Vienna and Moscow. The barrier of distance plus the barrier of language, almost insuperable except to the penetrating student, blocked cultural roads to Budapest. Then some wandering prospector struck dramatic gold, Liliom was produced, and Hungary became the cynosure of caravans...
...rate of business failures is naturally enormous. Here in Berlin there has been an average for several weeks of over 40 firms going into bankruptcy every day. One day last week, there were more than 70 failures...
...Berlin policeman gets 110 marks a month?about $25. He pays from 16 to 24 marks ($3.50 to $4.50) for the cheapest cotton shirt? 98 cents in any American department store, and other things in proportion. You can imagine how they live! And they are typical...