Word: karle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When U. S. citizens wearied of St. Gandhi, prominent U. S. newsfolk stopped covering India's fight for freedom, but last week famed Karl H. von Wiegand, sagacious Hearstling, cabled: "I have just traveled through India from the extreme southern part to Bombay and Allahabad in the North, more than 1,500 miles. "Talks with members of almost every class of Indians quickly reveal that feeling-even hatred-against the British, is intensifying. The current is steadily running deeper. "British of long residence in India frankly admitted that they fear a big explosion sooner or later. Some even touched...
...grandson of a tailor turned innkeeper. Educated in the arts, sciences and law, Goethe's poetical and practical career took imposing form in 1775, when, aged 26, he settled down in Weimar to spend the rest of his life at the court of his friend, Grand Duke Karl August. From then on as poet, statesman and a genius of widest interests 'Goethe permitted his personality to expand majestically. He crowned his career by writing Faust, a poem into which he poured a lifetime of erudition, inspiration and philosophy. If the German people have a "national poem" it is Faust...
...Princeton is currently 70 and resigning and the Princeton trustees were pondering Dr. Compton as Dr. Hibben's successor. (Dr. Compton is one of three men who in all Princeton's history have won doctorates in physics summa cum laude. The others are Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer, and Karl Taylor Compton [elder brother], president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) But young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of Chicago was persuasive. A Carnegie Foundation grant was available, and the University helped out further with equipment. So off put Distinguished Dr. Compton, not to Princeton, but to Panama and Peru on cosmic...
...director who did this motley piece of work, with its impressive pantomine and its empty dialogue; had able assistants to insure a good evening for the audience: the gifted photography of Mr. Karl Struss and the gifted pornography of Miss Miriam Hopkins...
...Cambridge, Mass, last week, members of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America were given a first look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new spectroscopic laboratory. President Karl Taylor Compton of the Institute and Professor George Russell Harrison, who has charge of the new shop, showed the physicists about. The new building is constructed like and really is an icebox. The outer walls-4 ft. thick-are of brick, 8 in. of cork, an air space and concrete. Within that well-insulated casing is an inner structure of ten rooms. The inner building...