Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceremony began with a rendition of Brahms' mournful First Symphony, played by the Philharmonic Orchestra. This over, Prof. Platz of Bonn University acted as public orator, skilfully avoided use of the word "republic." He declared that the "outside world still listens keenly when it hears the name of Weimar, although it is not thoroughly convinced when the Constitution of Weimar is mentioned." The Constitution, he added, is "holding a middle ground between Communism in the East and individualism in the West. "We must," said he, "emancipate ourselves from this mad tendency to permit our national life to become Americanized...
...official Agricultural Commission, the first to travel abroad since the War, left Bremen for the U. S. to study the progress made in U. S. agriculture during the past ten years. Members of the Commission: Prof. Theodor Brinkmann of Bonn University, Prof. George Keuhne of Munich University, Prof. Theodor Roemer of Halle University, Herr Joachim Deiche, large farmowner...
Baron von Maltzan, an Under Secretary at the Foreign Ministry, is aged 47. Born at Mecklenburg, educated at the Universities of Bonn and Breslau, the Baron first thought of carving out a career for himself as a soldier of the Kaiser. On second thought, he decided to become a diplomat; and, after having risen to the heights of a first lieutenancy, he left the Army shortly before breaking into the third decade of his life...
Professor Osternout came to Harvard as an assistant professor of botany in 1909. He graduated from Brown University in 1893 and received his master's degree from the same institution a year later. He then spent two years at the University of Bonn and returned to this country to receive his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California in 1899. He served as instructor in botany at Brown University and at Woods Hole, Mass, until he went to the University of California again in 1901. During the next eight years he remained there, becoming an associate professor...
...Harvard Observatory yesterday received cables and telegrams verifying the discovery of a comet by Finsler of Bonn, Germany, word of which came first on Saturday in a cable announcing Finsler's discovery as a problematical comet...