Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friedrich Wilhelm's sudden passion for the soil may of course be nothing but one of the whims which from time to time disturb the peace of mind of royalty. Yet from the fact that he has frequently found it necessary to motor as far as Berlin in order to have his teeth attended, although Brealau cannot be wholly barren of dentists, he may be suspected of cloaking the usual ambition of dispossessed princes beneath his present agricultural activities...
...Ruhr district, miners struck for a shorter day and more pay. Other strikes were reported from Saxony and Silesia. Berlin Bolsheviks urged the metal workers and railwaymen to join their Red brethren. Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), Berlin Communist journal, proclaimed a new wave of struggle against the hated capitalist system...
Premier Benito Mussolini planned a great opera house; his Ministers approved it as a matter or course. The opera is to be worthy of comparison with those of Milan, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Manhattan. The stage is to be the "largest in the world" and the theatre is to seat 4000. The edifice is to cost about $150,000, will be situated in the Via Vittoria Veneto, most beautiful modern street in Rome...
Into the office of the Russian Trade Delegation at Berlin marched the Berlin police, searched the premises for a Communist against whom a warrant had been issued, turned the place upside down...
...President A. A. Michelson and other scientists rushed to his side, ambulances were summoned, but the speaker was dead. The session was discontinued. Dr. Nichols was one of the most distinguished of American physicists. Born in Kansas in 1869 he was educated at the Kansas Agricultural College, Cornell University, Berlin, Cambridge, and held numerous honorary degrees. He taught at Colgate, Dartmouth, Columbia, became President of Dartmouth in 1909. Resigning in 1916 to become Professor of physics at Yale, his later years were punctuated by periods of ill health, but he held varied important positions in administration and research at Massachusetts...