Word: fritzes
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...show steers a didactic course through the recurrent images of jazz-age dreaming. Maria, the famous she-robot in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, mother of a whole brood of automatons down to George Lucas' See Threepio, was not alone: her brothers were the machine men of Dadaism, whose poetic meaning (like hers) was anguish in the face of inhuman technology. No phase of modern art showed such profound doubts about the present, or threw off such febrile dreams about new social orders. The millenarian hope that eventually spawned the totalitarianism of the '30s was felt by artists, architects...
Kalckar's greatest discovery came in the late 1930s in his study of intermediary metabolism, the complex set of reactions in the body by which food is broken down for energy and materials. With Fritz Lippmann, who received a Nobel Prize for the work, Kalckar presented the first evidence for the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) as a result of biological oxidation...
...more than 190 East Germans were killed trying to escape. When Heinz Kessler, former Defense Minister of the now defunct communist regime, planned to flee to the Soviet Union last week, however, he was merely arrested, along with former Prime Minister Willi Stoph and two other ex-leaders, Fritz Streletz and Hans Albrecht...
...Fritz Hollings, South Carolina. Once thought to be politically invincible, Hollings was roundly booed at a rally for returning gulf soldiers. Polls indicate that Republican Governor Carroll Campbell, if he decides to run, stands a good chance of handing Hollings his first statewide-election loss in more than 30 years...
...Richards1914 Chemistry George R. Minot 1934 Medicine, Physiology William P. Murphy 1934 Medicine, Physiology Percy W. Bridgeman 1946 Physics Edward M. Purcell 1952 Physics Fritz A. Lipmann 1953 Medicine, Physiology John F. Enders 1954 Medicine, Physiology Frederick C. Robbins 1954 Medicine, Physiology Thomas H. Weller 1954 Medicine, Physiology George von Bekesy 1961 Medicine, Physiology James D. Watson 1962 Medicine, Physiology Konrad E. Bloch 1964 Medicine, Physiology Julian S. Schwinger 1965 Physics Robert Burns Woodward 1965 Chemistry George Wald 1967 Medicine, Physiology Simon S. Kuznets 1971 Economics Kenneth J. Arrow 1972 Economics Wassily W. Leontif 1973 Economics William N. Lipscomb...