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...European languages but stricter philologists confined its use to one Indo-European branch?Sanskrit, Iranian, and their modern dialects in North India and Persia. Max Muller, though not at all out of sympathy with the budding doctrine of Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went to Oxford in 1848 to supervise printing of his Rig-Veda translation, stayed in England the rest of his life, became...
Theirs was far from the last execution. In Breslau another top-hatted headsman swung his sword on another Communist neck. Ten more Reds were sentenced to death in Dessau while 19 others were waiting in German jails for headsmen to get their second wind...
Meanwhile work in the Junkers plant at Dessau went ahead on planes for Scandinavia, Argentina, the Far East (one-third of all the world's airlines use Junkers planes). Advance orders for both aircraft and engines were heavier than last year. Of the 3,000 employes (one-third of all Dessau workmen) it was indicated that 1,200 would be discharged. Observers doubted that the Reich would let the plant shut down completely, throw more men out of work...
Walter Gropius, 49, was born in Alsace but moved to Berlin before he was 20. He fought through the War. afterwards became director of the Grand Ducal Art School at Weimar that developed into the famed Bauhaus at Dessau. The severe Dessau Bauhaus with its horizontal ribbons of windows has been called the cradle of the International Style. In Dessau, too, he showed what he could do in the field of low cost municipal housing...
...Dessau, Germany, the Junkers factory is completing its first "stratosphere" plane, a low-wing monoplane of 40 ft. wingspread with a sealed cabin and a special air compressor to permit the engine to operate at altitudes greater than 7 mi. Claimed speed: 1,000 m.p.h