Word: innsbruck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Petrofabrics. Whether terrestrial or cosmic, the forces that built the Alps tied them into complicated kinks. Bruno Sander, a native of the Austrian Tyrol and professor at the University of Innsbruck, described his method of studying the kinks. Specimens of crystalline rock were ground to paper thinness, peered at under the microscope where the force lines spring to view. By plotting hundreds of force lines from different parts of a mountain, he deduces the slidings and thrustings that formed the mountain. He calls his method petrofabrics, thinks it may prove useful in locating ore veins...
...night last week in Innsbruck near the border, Nazi students spied the car of Prince Aloyse Löwenstein-Wertheim-Ro-senberg, onetime German Catholic Centre Party official, refugee from German Naziism. On it they spied the black, red and gold Heimwehr (Austrian Fascists) pennant. Students surrounded the car, jumped on the running board, ripped off the pennant. Up rose Princess Löwenstein, pulled a revolver from her purse and began firing at random into the crowd. The students fled, the Prince drove...
...this was shadow boxing. First actual test of Nazi strength in Austria was the municipal election last week in the Tyrol's ancient capital, Innsbruck. Because the distribution of voters in Innsbruck closely parallels their distribution in the nation, foreign correspondents have come to regard Innsbruck as Austria's Maine. Chancellor Dollfuss flew to Innsbruck to make speeches. Ninety percent of the electorate turned out to vote...
...autumn. She had never seen the mountains, but she felt sure she would love them. There was a photograph of them on the wall of the kindergarten in which she taught at Manchester. The moment he saw her the strapping young innkeeper of the Gasthaus Rote Hirsch, above Innsbruck, knew that he and Fanny would get along together. For the police register she confessed to being 29. The amiable innkeeper was amazed. The reason she looked so childlike, he decided, was because she was always with "de liddle vuns." The reason he spoke English so well was because he once...
...University Afloat" consists of two semesters. During the first term students visit ten countries in Europe. Periods of Resident Study are held in the university towns of Oxford, Strasbourg, Innsbruck, Pisa, and Heidelberg, as well as during the Atlantic-crossing in the "Resolute", and classes are conducted on regular schedule. England, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Monaco and the Riviera, Switzerland, and Italy are included in this itinerary...