Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm, no onetime Childs' waitress, she entered the movies as a debutante from Montreal, Canada, where her family lost money after the World War. The pictures that made her were The Flapper, Broadway After Dark, Pleasure Mad. Later, she did The Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager of the M-G-M studios. She is now working...
...July, Dr. Shapley, as president of the American Section, will attend the meetings of the International Astronomical Union in Leiden, Holland, and of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Heidelberg, Germany...
Coolidge Tube. In x-ray tubes the electrons popping from the cathode are imprisoned within the tubes. How to get them outside became a problem for scientists. Philip Lenard, Nobel prizewinner for 1905 and now professor at the University of Heidelberg, solved it by placing a thin aluminum "window," one eighth of an inch in diameter, at one end of a tube. Electrons passed through it, but feebly. He used only 30,000 volts of electricity...
...visited follows: Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn.: College of Wooster, Wooster, Penn.; College of Wooster, Wooster, Penn.; Kenyon College, Cambier, Ohio; Denison University, Granville, Ohio: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; Butler University, Duke, lowa; Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana; Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana; De Pauw, Greencastle, Indiana; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; Heidelberg, College, Tiffin, Ohio; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Ohio; Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio; University of Pittsburgh, Penn.; Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh Penn.; Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Penn...
...Heidelberg University-known to theatre-goers as the scene of The Student Prince, known to the learned world as the oldest of famed German universities-will receive $400,000 from the U. S. Aroused by the university's needs, U. S. Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman, once a Heidelberg student, last week undertook to raise the fund. Founded in 1385, surrounded by wooded hills on which the ruins of Heidelberg Castle in the state of Baden still stand, Heidelberg finds that antiquity and a picturesque setting cannot provide for material needs. The main building is cluttered with debris...