Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MAGIC MOUNTAIN?Thomas Mann?Knopf (2 vol. $6). "An unassuming young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit," Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...
...with further progressive reductions to follow. Like a pricked bubble, the market burst. The average decline of all stocks was 45 points. Glazed textiles, quoted on the former bull market at seven times their par, tobogganed almost instantly 150 points. On the other great German stock exchanges in Frankfort, Hamburg, Cologne, etc., the collapse was, of course, equally terrific...
Professor Kellogg will spend some months in England studying and visiting many well-known mathematicians. From there he will journey to Geneva, Switzerland; from which throughout the remainder of his stay abroad he will make excursion study trips to Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Poitiers, Rome, Hungary, and Poland. In each of these places he will visit famous professors of mathematics and will study...
...among whom are Dr. Max Friedlander, a German authority on prints and North European painting, Professor Adolp Goldschmidt, an eminent German Mediaevalist who is to give a series of lectures at Harvard next fall, M. R. James, a well-known English mediaevalist, Dr. A. Warburg, of the University of Hamburg, Paul Pelliot, a French Orientalist. Roger Fry, British author and authority on modern painting, Bernnard Berenson, an eminent authority in the field of Italian painting and Arthur Waley of the British Museum...
...basis of the collection of German literature in the Library is formed by a large number of German publications of about 150 years ago sent to America at that time by Professor Ebeling of Hamburg, who was writing an encyclopedic work on America in exchange for every sort of book dealing with American life...