Word: hanse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The 1935 Nobel Prize for Medicine last week went to a German embryologist, sturdy Professor Hans Spemann, 66, of the University of Freiburg. The German Press published big headlines about this first unstinted salute to a Nazi scientist.
Hans Spemann's father was an important German book publisher. In that business young Spemann spent a year before deciding to study medicine. He never practiced, his career having become fixed at the laboratory stage.
When Leopold Stokowski flicked his baton in Philadelphia 20 years ago, he had no player more responsive than a handsome blond Dutchman who sat hugging his cello between his knees. Hans Kindler was back in Philadelphia last week, this time as a guest on Stokowski's podium, waving his...
"As early as November 1919 General Hans von Seeckt gave initiative to the training of officers in the manner given in the former War Academy. It was to take place at the army district commands, which were furnished with special teachers for that purpose.
First across the line was a portrait by Hans Schlereth of Washington, D.C. Largest portrait was a slick study by Howard Chandler Christy. Most insistent was Artist Boris Gordon who yowled that the commission be awarded to his picture without further ado largely because he produced the official Speaker'...