Search Details

Word: kuno (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

They slip into West Berlin furtively, usually on a streetcar or subway train. Dazed by fright and fatigue, they seek out a policeman; he directs them to a three-story brick building in Kuno Fischer Strasse in the British sector. In a jostle overhung with the smell of sweat and disinfectant, they are registered and assigned to a refugee center. Berlin now has 78 of them, large & small. One is a former bomb shelter without windows. Another, which I visited last week, is a hastily reconditioned former factory where each of 11,800 refugees gets a cot, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Life in the Shade | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Both Germans and hyphenated Americans developed the Museum. It was the dream of Kuno Franke, Professor of German History. Its first pieces were gifts of Kaiser Wilhelm, while Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis malt-and-hops king, and his son-in-law, Hugo Reisinger endowed the building itself...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: A Gift of the Kaiser | 10/21/1952 | See Source »

Taylor Starck, chairman of the Department of German Languages for 20 years, was yesterday appointed to the Kuno Francke Professorship of German Art and Culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Starck Given Francke German Culture Chair | 5/21/1952 | See Source »

...omniscient penman turns out to be a man named Kuno Schiller, a brilliant photographer who has discovered the N-ray-something which can catch men's thoughts for him on sensitized paper. Schiller offers to photograph foreign diplomats, reveal their secrets to the German government. The government accepts his offer and, for a time, acting on Schiller's information, conducts a preternaturally successful foreign policy. (It is the era of the Locarno Pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking Can Make It So | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Funeral services were held yesterday for Karl Vietor, 58, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture. He died Thursday at the New England Medical Center in Boston after a long illness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Karl Vietor, Professor of German, Dies; His Work Hailed by Colleagues | 6/9/1951 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next