Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since Friedrich Woehler a hundred years ago accidentally manufactured urea, scientists have synthesized more things than exist naturally in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. Carbon is the base of most of these new products. As diamond it is the most precious natural substance, as coal the most valuable. Carbon plus oxygen gives carbon monoxide, whence grows a myriad of compounds; carbon plus hydrogen gives methane, and its myriad; carbon plus nitrogen gives cyanogen, and its myriad; C plus N plus H gives hydrocyanic acid; C plus N plus H plus O gives urea. There are 400,000 carbon derivatives...
Artificial Coal. Dr. Friedrich Bergius of Germany heated soft coal, hydrogen and a catalyst under heavy pressure. The coal changed into gasolines, aromatics and other volatile hydrocarbons. This Berginization process the German Dye Trust is using under direction of Dr. Carl Krauch, able chemist, who was at Pittsburgh last week. With him was Dr. Bergius himself to report his further wizardry with hydrocarbons. By heating cellulose and: water or lignin and water, lie produced coal. "End coal" he ; calls it, and, like natural coal he could transmute it into gasoline and other fractional products...
Exceeding Small is the way in which the mills of God grind, as stated by Friedrich Von Logau in a much misquoted German poem.* In this play, the first offering of the Actors' Theatre this season, the mills ground a girl, Gert, and a boy, Ed. Ed, who earned $20 a week, married Gert. On his wedding night, he discovered that he had a weak heart and would soon die. The idea of suicide came to him like an inspiration or the thought of a journey. Gert did not wish to live any longer either; so Ed closed the window...
...Theatre Guild will open its season with Goethe's Faust, directed by Friedrich Holl, follow with a Shaw revival in November and carry through the winter with Meteor by S. N. Behrman and Sil-Vara's Playing at Love. Possibly also the Guild will do a new O'Neill play tentatively entitled Dynamo, Romain Rolland's The Game of Love and Death, Turgenev's A Month in the Country or The Genius and His Brother, by Sil-Vara...
Engagement Rumored. Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son of the onetime All-Highest; to Countess Mellin, onetime Baroness Wolff. When her husband contracted tuberculosis a few years ago, the Countess earned her living by keeping house for the Prince; later she divorced Count Mellin. Prince Eitel has divorced Duchess Sophie-Charlotte of Oldenburg...