Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gallery XV there has been installed an exhibition of prints representative of the decorative arts. The fifteenth century Italian and German engravings have been chosen because of the manner in which they illustrate the furniture, metal work, textiles, and architectural treatment of exteriors and interiors during this period. Schongauer's "Life of the Virgin" is among the best known of the works in this group...
...really potent babe (born yesterday and with 58 years in which to grow up paying on the installment plan), even $466 or 1,957 gold marks may not seem onerous. Certainly nothing plaintive was said last week by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and chief of the German delegation at Paris. Emerging from the secret session at which the $28,000,000,000 bill was presented, Dr. Schacht merely roared at correspondents: "Neither the figures nor the conditions are acceptable to Germany! We would rather-far rather-remain under the Dawes Plan!" Later Germany's testy...
...present scarlet fever season † was an opportune time for two German investigators at Wiesbaden last week to announce that they had isolated the scarlet fever bacillus...
Getting heavy planes off the ground requires more power than flying them straightaway. Hence, attempts to shove them upward from inclined planes; hence, the device of the German Dr. Hugo Junkers, which last week's despatches reported successful. He places the plane which is to fly, on the wings of a large three-motored auxiliary plane. The auxiliary leaves the ground with its load, when good flying height is attained, the top ship takes off from the auxiliary, which returns to its field. Last week the U. S. gave Dr. Junkers letters patent for his idea...
...foremost German psychologists, Dr. Kurt Koffka, will lecture on "Machines, Life, and `Gestait' " on Wednesday evening at Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston, under the auspices of the American Association of University Women...