Word: kaisers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Puzzle to Fission. Late in 1938 a distinguished German chemist named Otto Hahn, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm-Institute, was bombarding uranium with "slow" neutrons of low energy. As one of the end products, he identified barium. This puzzled him, but he published a diffident note on it in Naturwissenschalfen...
Died. Sir Bernard Partridge, 83, mustachioed, meticulous, mid-Victorian chief cartoonist of Britain's famed Punch, who faithfully pen-& -inked 20th Century faces from Queen Victoria through the Kaiser (109 appearances) to Hitler (more than 120); in London...
...happened in 1939 in the laboratory of a German scientist, Otto Hahn of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin...
...planning a new model with a wheelbase of only 86 inches (present Ford wheelbase: 114 inches). Willys-Overland also has a new small car up its sleeve. But no one was doing much talking-yet. Cracked one motorman with heavy irony: "We're not as far along as Kaiser and Frazer...
Married. Prince Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia, 33, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria; and Lady Brigid Katherine Rachel Guinness, 25, youngest daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer; in Hadham, Hertfordshire, England...