Word: ernst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gibbons' "Decline and Fall" and early editions of Samuelson's "Economics" will cost only 25 cents in Lamont this week. William B. Ernst, First Assistant in the Lamont Library, announced yesterday that a sale of more than 1000 duplicate books will begin today at the Library's West Desk. The sale of books that are no longer usable because they have been replaced by newer editions or for other reasons will continue every day this week, from...
From Huismes, in central France, where he was vacationing last week, old manifesto writer Max Ernst was not long in replying: "I left the surrealist group in 1939 and have never since belonged to it. It seems to me that all those who have made the discoveries and the greatness of surrealism, have over the last 20 years either left or have been 'excluded.' (To name a few: Picabia, Magritte, Giacommeti, Brauner, Tanguy, the artists, and Crevel, Desnes, and Eluard, the poets.) For me, surrealism will continue to be represented by poets such as these, rather than...
Then, in the mid-1930s, came the sulfa drugs and a revival of interest in germ-killing chemicals. An Oxford research team composed of Pathologist (now Sir) Howard Florey and Chemist Ernst Chain dug up Fleming's moldy paper and did the tests all over again. By 1941 they got enough penicillin to prolong the lives of two patients. World War II had come to Europe and was threatening the U.S.: men, money and materials were lavished on the perfection and manufacture of penicillin...
...willing to play avant-garde music. Because of their talent and their warm sympathy for struggling composers, the Ajemian sisters rank high among this handful. Last week, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pianist Maro and Violinist Anahid Ajemian played a representative program, including works by Austrian Ernst Krenek, American Alan Hovhaness, the late German Kurt Weill and Spaniard Carlos Surinach. The Ajemians not only played without a fee but ended the evening owing a sizable printer's bill for programs...
Born. To Nancy Oakes, 31, daughter of the late Sir Harry Oakes and ex-wife of Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted in 1943 of the murder of his father-in-law in Nassau, and Baron Ernst Lyssard von Hoyningen Huene, 25, of Oberammergau, Germany: their first child, a son; in Nassau, Bahama...