Word: koenigsberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before heading for Tokyo, 6,880 mi. away. Hearty Charles C. Younggreen of Milwaukee, President of the International Advertising Association there in convention, got to a microphone and said: "We greet the Graf Zeppelin as ambassador of good will to the entire world." The ship proceeded quietly over Danzig, Koenigsberg, the onetime Eastern War Front, into Russia...
...newspapers on January 30, stating that he was "distinctly and definitely opposed to any representative of our newspapers or news services receiving any decorations or honorarium from any foreign government, except for patriotic service rendered America's allies in time of war." Last week, Moses Koenigsberg, president of the International News Service, Inc., and other Hearst syndicates, was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor of France at the Manhattan home of Jeweler Pierre Cartier, forthwith resigned all his offices with Mr. Hearst. It is believed his salary had been $75,000 per annum. William Franklin Knox...
...Immanuel Kant himself walking meticulously under the lindens at Koenigsberg could have been at greater pains than Count Keyserling to express in dry, recondite terms of utterly accurate cognition the following thoughts...
...hours and 21 minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident...
Harvard is one of several American college and universities, including Dartmouth. Princeton, Yale, Cornell Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley, who have been invited by the European Student Unions to send delegates to be their official guests for the summer. The delegates from Harvard will visit, among other places, Berlin, Hamburg, Koenigsberg, and Bremen in Germany Gutenburg and Stockholm in Sweden, the Norwegian Fiords, Helsingfors in Finland Reval, Navra and Dorpat in Esthonia. Riga in Latvia. Kouno in Lithuaria Warsaw in Poland, Prague in Czechoslavakia, Geneva, and Paris...