Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monday at 4.30 o'clock in the Geology Lecture Room all members of the University will have the opportunity of hearing Professor Karl von Frisch, head of the Zoological Institute of Munich, Germany, it was announced yesterday by G.H. Parker '87, director of the Zoological Laboratory. Professor von Frisch, one of the most noted among European students of animal habits, is making a tour of inspection of American Zoological laboratories...
After several years as a member of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Affairs, he was sent by his patron, Cardinal Gasparri to Munich, where he pursued the pacific policies of Pope Benedict XV. In 1917 he conveyed the Papal Peace Note to Kaiser Wilhelm...
Beside himself with vexation was Dr. Adolph Fuchs, Director of the State Hospital for the Insane at Kaufbeuren, near Munich, Germany, last week. One of his patients suffers from Pica. Pica is the depraved appetite which the mentally unbalanced, the hysteric and the pregnant often develop. Like magpies (Pica is Latin for magpie), they eat all things they encounter. Dr. Fuchs' patient, a man, has swallowed needles, nails, knife blades, spoons, a screwdriver handle, a beer seidel handle, coins, matches, all with no apparent harm. Once he drank sulphuric acid, another time lysol. He is allowed no clothes with...
...Munich, an embargo was placed upon the importation of parrots into Bavaria...
...from his own experience. The son of a German army officer, he volunteered at 17, served with the German artillery, early in the War was shot through the throat. After a year and a half in the hospital he was discharged as unfit for further service. He lives in Munich, whose university gave him his doctorate in philosophy; has written a book of verse, several novelettes and short stories, a tragedy based on the Ruhr Occupation. The Whistlers' Room was originally written (1928) as a contribution to a commemorative volume in honor of Poet Hans Carossa's 50th...