Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walden, in charge of freshmen at Yale, appealed to the Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested, fearful that the prohibition might extend to all students, as at Princeton. Started on a Junkers monoplane flight from Berlin westward to New York last week, Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron von Huenefeld and Mechanic Arthur Spindler reached Dublin, Ireland, whence they were to attempt a longer lurch...
...round in hot haste to destroy the enemy. At one time the best medical practice believed in damping the fire, bringing down the fever. Now the viewpoint changes. Medical men are conjuring up fevers to help them fight widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns the body to bring on a fever in cases of chronic diseases of the joints, obstinate suppuration, cardiac inflammation following chronic ulceration. Using the thermo-cauterizer, a scientific and delicate...
...clubs. To his guest, Edward of Wales, he could display with dignity the world's finest collection of armor, which lines his great halls on Long Island. The masses know him be cause he is grandfather, without his consent, to the baby daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin. Intelligent New York knows him as, next to Otto Kahn, its most famed music-patron...
...Henry Hentz & Co. of Manhattan. The amount was not so stupendous-30,000 bushels. The bid price was not so unusual-$1.19.* But when Chicago said, "All right, we'll fill your order," Manhattan replied, "Please execute it at once and confirm. It's an order from Berlin, and Berlin is holding the wire." Chicago executed and confirmed. Manhattan told Berlin. Berlin hung up, pleased by efficiency. . The entire transaction had occupied nly three minutes, cost...
...rapid communication. During last fortnight's furor on the New York Stock Exchange, a busy floor man was asked by his office for a quotation on General Electric. "What the-!" he roared. "I can't be bothered for quotations at a time like this!" "But Berlin wants to know. They're holding the wire." Abashed, the floorman dove into the nearest drift of ticker-tape. "138½ and still going up!" he reported. Berlin bought 3,000 shares...