Word: leipzig
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...merged with its most powerful rival, the Albatross Modern Continental Library, managed by John Holroyd-Reece, onetime British cavalry officer, founder of the arty Pegasus Press and the Pantheon Series. He controlled his multilateral book business through Publishing Holding Co., with main offices in Paris, branches in London and Leipzig...
Until the war the Nazis permitted Tauchnitz to continue distributing its British and American authors, because this meant enormous printing orders placed in Germany. As late as August 1939, Holroyd-Reece wrote his Leipzig staff: "Tauchnitz has survived four [wars] and we will survive the fifth." One month after the Nazis marched into Paris they took over Publishing Holding...
Indomitable Dr. Thomas made the trustees of Johns Hopkins admit her by a special vote to their graduate Greek Department. Later she stormed her way into the Universities of Leipzig (where, as the only woman, she had to sit behind a screen at lectures) and Gottingen; then, refused a Ph.D., went to Zurich to get one. She took charge of Bryn Mawr in 1894, ten years after its founding, ran it with an iron hand until...
...doctors hard at work in an operating room-sterilizing women. Swiftly and methodically hospital beds rolled in and out of the operating room. Their occupants were weak women, women who had borne weak children, women considered "enemies of the State." Ziemer also visited a home for feebleminded boys near Leipzig, was led to a small, clean, white-painted hut, known by gossip as a Hitler Kammer. There boys who were still hopelessly clumsy at age ten were put to death. In Nazi homes for prospective mothers, Ziemer found girls who were about to bear State (illegitimate) children showered with admiration...
After getting a Leipzig Ph.D., Stone returned to Massachusetts Agricultural College and began to teach a generation of botanists new conceptions of plant disease and care. He helped to found Massachusett's system of tree wardens, went about the U.S. diagnosing tree ailments, usually at a glance, and advising communities how to preserve their leanness from gas, electricity, insects, fungi, etc. A good hand with chisel and trowel, Stone devised methods of repairing trees. His teachings stimulated a host of tree surgeons and researchers, who learned to treat trees as living things...