Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaperman. A West Point graduate ('15), he was stationed in Germany for six months after World War I, there met three brilliant young German officers whose sensational theories about total war launched him on a career as student of geopolitics. Today Colonel Beukema declares that history will rate Karl Haushofer, prophet of German geopolitics, more important than Adolf Hitler, because Haushofer's studies made possible Hitler's victories both in power politics...
...Matthay-trained teachers are still a distinct minority among the 100,000 piano-marms of the U.S., but Matthay-like ideas are moving in. About one-third of the nation's 1,500,000 piano students are no longer subjected to those scramble-noted exercises composed by implacable Karl Czerny, who is widely believed to have hated children...
Kilgore's list includes Montesquieri, "Persian Letters"; Charles B. Brown, "Wieland"; Karl Net, "An Outline of the History of Music"; Albert L Guerard, "Preface to World Literature"; Cecil Noura, "Tradition and Design in the lliad"; Crane Brinton, "Anatomy of Revolution"; Voltaire, "Letters on the English." and A. H. Quinn, "Representative American Plays, Century 3rd Edition...
...they want to know it. Fifteen companies,* with nearly $1,000,000 in subscriptions, last week incorporated the non-profit Nutrition Foundation. Its purposes: 1) to establish cooperative research laboratories; 2) broadcast their nutritional findings freely. To head their foundation they got no less a scientist-administrator than Karl Taylor Compton, 54, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Died. Karl Decker, 73, damsel-rescuing Hearst reporter of the Spanish-American War; in Manhattan. A series of articles he wrote on Spain's cruelty to Cubans was credited with an assist toward the U.S. declaration of war on Spain. One midnight with a party of Cubans he spirited beautiful 18-year-old Evangelina Cisneros, daughter of a Cuban revolutionary, out of a Havana jail cell. Her window bars were filed, she was hoisted to the roof by rope and taken in boy's clothing to a chartered steamer. On her arrival in Manhattan she got a heroine...