Word: jena
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...Italian chemist and a devout Roman Catholic, Max Jordan got his Ph.D. in religious philosophy at Jena, then got sidetracked into journalism and radio. He scored many radio scoops during ten years as NBC's European chief. He was the first broadcaster from Nazi-occupied Paris, from the Zeppelin Hindenburg over the Atlantic and the first to send the Munich Pact text...
...Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Waldshut. On the Weser lie Gottingen, Kassel, Rotenburg-all aircraft centres. On the Saale, tributary of the Elbe, were the big synthetic oil works of Leuna, the Zeiss instrument works at Jena...
...modern business of optical instruments is heavily indebted to the work of a painstaking German scientist, Carl Zeiss, who nearly a century ago in the little town of Jena tried to make good microscopes. Largely because of that fact a Federal grand jury in Manhattan last week handed down a stiff anti-trust indictment...
...wife of Jena's Professor Ludwig H. Plate, he sighed, "I do love you so." Frau Plate: "Oh! Don't try to make me believe that." Kurwenal: "I always speak the truth...
...official Washington he has been, even more, Mr. Big. They might occasionally grumble at his tactics, but they had much the same practical faith and trust in Roosevelt the victor of 1932, 1934, 1936 that the officers of the Grand Army had in Napoleon the victor of Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena...