Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart has stood the most severe strains in a wonderful manner. I beg Einstein's pardon, that I compare my heart with the shaft of a perpetual motion contrivance, which does not exist, of course...
Strassburger Prize Sirs: A jury composed of Professor Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Jakob Wassermann, representing the German branch of the Strassburger Foundation has awarded the annual prize of the Foundation for 1932 to Walther Reinhardt, German Consul in Seattle, Wash., for his book George Washington, published in Frankfurt am Rhein. The object of the Strassburger Foundation is to further good relations between the U. S. and several European countries. It has branches in France, Germany, Austria and Hungary. Its French jury is composed of Andre Maurois, M. Francois-Poncet, French Ambassador to Berlin, and others. Annual prizes...
...bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire - about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice people, those Americans. . . . When some one is dead in America, he does not exist any more. No one talks . . . about him. Sometimes the Americans are just children . . . flocking to see me, as if I were a miraculous animal...
...Berlin, prominent residences are done in the chaste modern style. In Soviet Russia, and near Frankfurt, simple modern tenements are housing poor people. Nor is the use confined to business buildings or residences. A newspaper plant, a grain elevator, and a paper mill have invested in modern buildings. Einstein's laboratory, a Paris garage, a dentist's office and many salons of the S.S. Bremen have adopted the new fashion...
...ignored changing fashions, kept his courtly, old-school ways, his Windsor ties, his tufted goatee, his hair long. His office was a celebrated rendezvous for newspaper-folk. Behind his rolltop desk hung his own definition of relativity- "There is no hitching post in the universe" -across which Albert Einstein wrote last year "Gelesen und richtig befunden...