Word: friedrichs
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Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who wrote on Harvard's history, was virtually born with Crimson blood. Perhaps for that reason, Friedrich pooh-poohs any idea of a Harvard mystique. Says he: "I grew up there, my father (Carl J., who helped create the West German constitution) was a professor of government there, and the life of the faculty was our neighborhood life. I wasn't that impressed. Anyway, I almost flunked out my freshman year." Friedrich quickly recovered, though, and graduated magna cum laude...
...German chemist, Friedrich Bergius, detailed a process for converting "wood waste, such as sawdust, into virtually unlimited supplies of synthetic food products containing all the fundmental elements of nutrition...
Perhaps the most remarkable announcement was that of the German professor, Friedrich Bergius, who claimed to have developed a means for converting sawdust into food. Across two columns atop its front page on September 12, 1936, The Times reported the following...
...told, the decades immediately after World War II were something of a golden age for socialism. As countries extended their sway over business, Economists Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich von Hayek darkly warned of an irreversible global turning away from capitalism. Schumpeter argued, "Socialism of a very sober type would almost automatically come into being." Hayek predicted that the rejection of free enterprise would create dictatorships everywhere...
...urged to keep their children out of sandboxes, to avoid touching the ground with anything but their feet and to protect themselves from rain. Yet in Bavaria officials saw no harm in letting children play in sand as long as they kept it out of their mouths. Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann sought to ease fears like those that caused almost 1,000 anxious TV viewers to call a panel of experts with such questions as whether they should jog, play tennis or walk their dogs. Said Zimmermann in a special radio and TV address: "Based on present findings, there...