Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People have shuddered in reading about the famous plagues of history,--the swarms of files which soured Egyptian tempers, the campaigns of the African ant-armies, the rats of Hamburg which the Pled Piper charmed with his pipe. But these pale before the contemporary radio plague. It has swept the country, closed the family phonograph, put dust on the family piano. No Pied Piper has come forward to charm it into the ocean so a radio council has gathered at Washington to control the tyranny...
Though in Germany it was a coalition which fell, the new ministry is headed by a capitalist-conservative and will probably contain few Socialists. Herr Cuno, the new Chancellor, is a practical business man. Director General of the Hamburg-American Steamship Line, and has termed his ministry "the Cabinet of work". National reconstruction along sound business principles is his avowed policy...
...comet has been discovered by the astronomer Baade of Hamburg, Germany, according to a cablegram received by the University Observatory from Copenhagen. The discovery was made last Thursday, October 19, and the comet was subsequently observed on Sunday by the Danish astronomer Stroemgren at Copenhagen...
...party will start from New York on July 8, by S. S. "Majestic", arriving at Southampton on July 14. From Southampton, the party will go immediately to Hamburg by boat, arriving the following day. Beginning on July 17, the party will remain in Leipzig until August 5, when the lecture-courses will come to an end, and diplomas will be given...
...course of study, the party will go on a 12-day four of Germany. The Itinerary will include such famous places as Jena, Wartburg. Nuremberg, Munich. Oberammergau. where the Passion Play is presented. Heidelberg, and the Rhine district, with its ancient castles and towers. The party will leave Hamburg for New York on August 19, arriving on September...