Word: breslau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increase of 3,350,000 over the 1919 census. Berlin remains the second largest European city, with 3,900,000 inhabitants. Hamburg is the second largest German city, with just over a million. Köln (Cologne), München, Leipzig and Dresden have each over 600,000 and Breslau exceeds the 500,000 mark...
...Walter Johannes Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, in 1862. Aged nine, he migrated to Manhattan. Dr. Leopold Damrosch, his father, was a musician of note, and in Walter's youth, Wagner, Liszt, von Bulow, Ruyer, Rubinstein visited his home. At 14 his father let him appear in his orchestra at the performance of an operetta but Walter was too nervous to life the cymbals. Nevertheless at 23 he became conductor of the N. Y. Symphony Society-at a time when there were only three symphony orchestras in the U. S. -the New York and Boston Symphonies...
...Walter Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, came to the U. S. when he was nine. His father, also a conductor, was a friend of Liszt, Wagner, von Billow, Auer, Rubinstein; he led an orchestra in which Walter made his first public appearance-as a cymbal player. The youth was so nervous that he could not lift the cymbals. Later he played in his father's orchestra with the second violins to learn how instrument players follow the conductor's beat. Recently he owned the largest private music library in the world, presented it to the New York...
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...
...general contents of a report prepared by a group of experts for the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva were published. The committee consisted of experts from the College of France, the Royal Institute of Florence, the University of Breslau, the Pasteur Institute, and Harvard, Copenhagen, Rome and Columbia Universities. It was appointed to investigate the possibilities of the use of poison gases and of bacteria in future wars...