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Word: bingen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delayed Warning. The Dutch were understandably furious. Five days before they were warned, dead fish, ducks and rats had been observed below the German town of Bingen. Why had the Germans failed to sound the alarm sooner? The North Rhine-Westphalian state government explained that a warning was issued to all German waterworks along the river. But then along came the weekend, and officials simply took off without passing the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Rancid Rhine | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...skeptical scrutiny than ever be fore. Liberal Protestants began their criticism in the last century; now many Catholic thinkers are also challenging the doctrine. One of the latest broad sides is the work of the Rev. Herbert Haag, a Catholic Biblical scholar at the University of Tübingen in Germany. In his new book, called Is Original Sin in Scripture? (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), Haag argues that there is no Biblical basis for the doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: The Sin of Everyman | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...millions of unemployed. But he had taken to writing poetry, and this proved to have a practical value. A millowner in Ebingen read some of Kurt's published verse, was so impressed that he offered to sponsor his university education. Kiesinger chose the law, spent one year at Tübingen University, then transferred to the University of Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Renewal on the Rhine | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...Bonn & Back. At the time of his clearance, Kiesinger was practicing law in his beloved Swabia, later settled his wife, daughter and son in Tübingen not far from his boyhood home. Germany's political factions were encouraged by the occupation authorities to regroup on a county and city level as a first stage toward forming state and national governments. Kiesinger felt drawn to the newly formed Christian Democrats, whose membership embraced both Catholics and Protestants. When the first postwar elections were held in 1949 for a West German government, Kiesinger was one of the winners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Renewal on the Rhine | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

Karlson dipped into his tiny supply of pure ecdysone and sent a five-milligram test sample to Ulrich Clever, a young biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen. Clever had been investigating the appearance of puffy swellings on microscopic, DNA-carrying chromosomes in the salivary glands of fly larvae. The puffs appear just before the larvae mature and change into pupae, and the tiny swelling seems to cause the metamorphosis. Karlson wondered how ecdysone would affect that transformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: How Nature Reads the Code | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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