Word: munich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Erich von Drygalski, of the University of Munich, for south polar research, a David Livingstone medal...
...very satisfying book unless you are either a passionate pilgrim or a fervent admirer of the sheer literary skill of slender, drooping, cynical Mr. Huxley. Here he is less cynical than usual, for he is traveling, enjoying himself, not trying particularly to be clever. In Rotterdam, Mantua, Siena, Munich, Monte Carlo, he idly employs his notebook to jot notes which will keep his warm coat of culture sleek and glossy. He takes the usual liberties?writing about his spectacles, the books he takes, Why Not Stay Home, etc.?but still he is Mr. A. Huxley, one of the more...
...newspaper story, which credited him with being a graduate of the University of Munich, of having worked his way across the Atlantic as a coal carrier, and of his landing with diamonds on his fingers, he denounced as absolutely false...
...Germany such a thing could never happen, and I cannot understand how the papers write such falsehoods", said Dr. Von Oy. "I do not come from Munich, but from Kiel. I don't wear diamonds, and far from being a coal and freight carrier, I came over as a guest of the captain...
...Munich Explorer Roald Amundsen's latest book was refused by the publishers of his earlier works. They announced...