Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to an announcement of Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, last night, Dr. Richard Prager, lately of the University of Berlin and one of the leading European astronomers, will arrive in Boston tomorrow on the Samaria to join the research staff of the Harvard College Observatory. Research work on variable stars will keep him at Harvard for at least two years...
...Prager, who was stationed until recently at the Berlin-Babelsberg Observatory, is an outstanding bibliographer in the large field of variable stars and was responsible for many years for naming variable stars and for recording them in the annual catalogue, Dr. Shapley said...
...college of cardinals in Rome will probably not elect a Pope strongly in favor of the Rome-Berlin axis, George La Piana, John H. Morrison Professor of Church History, predicted yesterday. What influence the American cardinals will have, if any, no one knows, he added...
...final try-outs for the Olympic ski-jumping team will be held at Berlin, New Hampshire on Sunday. A crowd of thirty thousand is expected to witness the jumping which will be from the world's highest steel tower. The winners will compete in the Olympic Games in Finland...
Edgar Ansel Mowrer is former head of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...