Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earth are planetoids, the gleaming flecks of solar matter which revolve around the Sun mostly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. One of the objects was discovered in March by Astronomer E. Delporte of Belgium's Royal Observatory,* the other in April by Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg. They might have been planetoids, tailless comets, or, wonderfully, new moons of the Earth...
...came comparatively late in life, and all his strictly Jewish benefactions (including the Jerusalem Health Centre) totaled less than the $5,000,000 which the late Julius Rosenwald gave for Jewish colonization in Crimea. Nathan Straus Jr. did not take part in Zionist affairs until comparatively recently. Educated at Heidelberg and Princeton (as a graduate student under Woodrow Wilson), he became a cub reporter for the New York Globe, bought Puck in 1914, built its circulation from 18,000 to 105,000. The anti-Semitism which Life then featured he fought hotly. Publisher Straus was a pacifist, earned the thanks...
...Daly graduated from Victoria University (Toronto) in 1891, and received his M. A. and Ph.D. from Harvard in subsequent years. He then studied at Heidelberg and Paris, after which he came to M. I. T., and later Harvard. He has done extensive travelling, often in connection with geological expeditions, and was a geologist for the Dominion of Canada during the international surveys...
Professor Jones is a prominent educator and author of many books on theological and philosophical subjects. He was graduated from Haverford College, and after studying at the University of Heidelberg, he received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1901 and D.D. in 1922. In the same year he received the degree of LL.D. from both Swarthmore and Haverford. He is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, president of the board since 1916, and of Brown University, while he has held his present professorship since...
...Saxony, he found half the population on the dole; in Thuringian villages the spectre of starvation. In Essen there was the ever-present fear of a new French invasion of the Ruhr, overshadowing the threat of Communism. Every-where Hitler's power was rising. Nearly three-fourths of Heidelberg's students were Nazis. Germans, facing ruin, were almost unanimous in demanding Reparations cancellation at any cost. The U. S., Correspondent Knickerbocker found, has too great a stake in the Reich to be able to afford isolation. Interviews with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' Presidential candidate, General Franz...