Word: danish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choked water lies the intricately indented coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Down between them, on maps, runs a frizzy line enclosing a white blob which cartographers have labeled "unexplored." Reports received in Copenhagen last week indicated the frizzy line would have to be changed. Just inside it, Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish scientist-explorer, had found a chain of mountainous islands...
Died. Dr. Valdemar H. Mensen, 58, founder-president of the Criminal State Police of Denmark; of a heart attack; in a Manhattan hotel. He kept tabs on every foreigner and known criminal in small Denmark, kept Danish crime statistics down. He was elected vice president of the International World Police created in Chicago last fortnight (TIME...
After making aerial studies of the mouth of Labrador's Northwest River as a seaplane base possibly superior to Cartwright, the Lindberghs hurdled Davis Strait 400 mi. to Godthaab on the west coast of Greenland. There they met the S. S. Jellinge, a 3,500-ton Danish tramp chartered by Pan American, outfitted as a floating laboratory, sent north from Philadelphia last month. Its research staff is headed by Pan American's Major Robert A. Logan, Canadian War ace who bombed the headquarters of Germany's Prince Rupprecht before the famed Richthofen shot him down. Ten years...
...general distinction between U. S. and European scientists which became patent last week when five Nobel Laureates from Europe* joined two from the U. S.† at the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. Americans work primarily with instruments. Europeans with imagination. Thus Danish Niels Bohr's philosophizing about the unmeasurable duality of Nature before the A. A. A. S. was a fascinating novelty which his audience tried hard to understand...
...Lewis, wealthy Baltimore (Johns Hopkins) surgeon, elected last year. Elected last week to be president for 1934-35 was Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring. 64, rich Des Moines internist, able diagnostician, a descendant of Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses call him a ''natural," conversational entertainer...