Word: haus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inventor who has belonged to the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin since he was 15 (for inventing a table stove), averred that in four months he would fly through the cold, thin stratosphere. Professor Albert Einstein approved his plan on theoretical grounds. So did Count Georg Wilhelm Alexander Haus Arco, President of the Telefunken Co. (radio builders). So did professors at the Berlin Polytechnic Institute. So, in effect, did the enthusiastic New York Times which obtained and printed a long exclusive Perl interview...
...rosy native graces depicted by Reynolds and Gainsborough. Several wrote to the newspapers. Why did the Dutchmen choose such ugly models? Were they ugly? Last week Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American, agreeing for once with Britishers, echoed the questions and said of Artist Haus Holbein's Eve: "The mother of the human race . . . appears to be afflicted with adenoids for she is certainly breathing through her mouth...
Following them was a group of distinguished professors and Manhattanites. Greetings were exchanged, a few speeches were delivered, everybody admired the ultra-modern German interior decorations. Thus was re opened Columbia's Deutsches Haus, founded in 1910 by Engineer & Financier Edward Dean Adams...
...money of the late Adolphus Busch of St. Louis and the late George Ehret of Manhattan poured freely in to establish Deutsches Haus. It was intended to be a focal point of German culture at Columbia and in Manhattan. But German culture, like Wagner operas at the Metro politan Opera House, disappeared from Manhattan during the War. Only last week did this last War-bred taboo disappear from Columbia...
...countries. Internationally-minded, he sees the advantages, the necessity of internationally-minded education. He would not mind see ing in Columbia a university city like that in Paris where 15 countries will have dormitories to house their Paris students (TIME, Sept. 10). Already on 117th Street beside the Deutsches Haus are a Casa Italiana, a Maison Franchise...