Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Reichstag, its membership now swollen to 855 members by the addition of Ostmark (Austrian) and Sudeten deputies, met in Berlin's Kroll Opera House one night early this week to hear the address of Führer Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Nazi rule. While Germans listened with pride at the recital of past Nazi victories, an anxious world combed the speech for cues as to what Nazi moves could be next expected...
Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...
...Near New Berlin, the Illinois Conservation Department bombing crew set off their 13th rookery blast of the season. In a crow rookery a quarter-mile long, 180 specially designed dynamite bombs were exploded, killing an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 crows. Approximate number of crows killed this winter in Illinois' crow...
From once-famed University of Berlin came news last week of the recent dedication of a new "anti-Semite department," named for Nazi Germany's front-rank anti-Semite, Julius Streicher. Present to open the first university course in Jew-baiting was Namesake Streicher himself. "Professor" Streicher, wearing puttees and carrying a riding crop, delivered a two-and-one-half-hour lecture on "Science and Jews." Keynote: "Any concept of history that records a Jew as a learned man or genius is false...
...whole less rich than the British Museum or the Berlin Ethnographic Museum, this outgrowth of the French Ethnographical Institute is rich in Zapotecan sculpture, Ooxocan ware and feather-mosaics from Mexico, particularly rejoices in several treasures: 1) the tallest (55-foot) British Columbian totem pole in captivity; 2) the world's finest bison-hide North American Indian paintings; 3) a fine, puma-headed statue from Bolivia, recently rescued from the Government Geology Laboratory, where it had reposed for 80 years as an interesting "sample of stone (undetermined...