Word: graz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then the Zeppelin flew to Graz and returned home via Vienna and Salzburg, completing the trip in 13½-hrs. For the Graf Zeppelin's next trip, May 15, to New York, passenger fare was fixed at $1,200; postage for a letter, $1.05; for a postcard, 55?...
...under the supervision of the Harvard-Yenching Institute which was established last year. The following four men, all of whom have already completed work under eminent sinologists at Harvard, will go to China next year: James R. Ware, A.M., University of Pennsylvania '25; Ernst Diez, Ph. D., University of Graz '02; Carl Schuster '27; Eugene K. Biggerstaff...
...roughneck" but the mother was a lady, tired always, with poverty and childbearing. Tini herself was always hungry, used to skip school often to go to the circus people in the marketplace where she cleaned monkey cages in exchange for food. Soldiers change their stations often. It was in Graz that the Rosslers bought a decrepit piano for a dollar and Tini mended it with string and sealing wax; in a Graz convent that the Mother Superior gave her her first singing lessons; in Graz that she sang first in public-the contralto part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...munching mouth it signalized that no other cow in all Austria gave so much milk as she. Last week President Hainisch braved the sad, brown eyes of Bella and took away her bell because he had had tidings of a cow named Maria, owned by one Herr Kraft of Graz. This rival cow,, this upstart Maria, has produced this year 2,400 gallons of milk and bettered the record of Bella by several foaming pails...
Died. John Cardinal Csernoch, 75, Archbishop of Graz and Primate of Hungary; of pneumonia; in Budapest...