Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, 36, of Berlin, trans-Atlantic flying partner of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice (TIME, April 23); after a stomach operation; in Berlin. His career was brilliant, despite great physical odds. From boyhood his heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married...
...cent copies of Albert Einstein's abstruse "Coherent Field Theory" reached the U. S. last week, the man himself, his wife and a daughter plodded about Wannsee, simply hunting rooms at that lake colony twelve miles from Berlin...
...works in the attic of five-story apartment house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoological garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room...
Professor Swain graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1877, and studied at the Royal Polytechnical School in Berlin from 1877 to 1880. Before coming to Harvard he was Hayward Professor of Civil Engineering at M. I. T. He was for years consulting engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and chairman from 1913 to 1918 of the Boston Transit Commission. In 1918 he was a member of a delegation of American engineers to France and a member of the Franco-American Engineering Commission during 1919. He is the author of many works on engineering, and of "How To Study...
...been made to the Commission in gold; 3) Meanwhile the French dealer who received the sugar sells it and makes payment to the French-Government in francs, whereupon the Reparations-Commission certifies that France has received the German payment, just as though it had been made directly from Berlin to Paris in gold...