Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A Crazy Situation." The clearest statement of what the conference was supposed to accomplish came not from a delegate, but from a private observer named Albert Kohler, a Swiss textile importer. Kohler's summary reiterated the fact that Germany is the key to European revival. He said:
The all-American finals at Wimbledon (see above) were just one more indication that England's guests this summer were making themselves right at home. To a country which prides itself on taking its games more seriously than its battles, the situation was beginning to look a bit too...
Andean Man, a stocky individual with a broad chest and purplish-ruddy complexion, is the special interest of Dr. Carlos Monge, founder of Peru's National Institute of Andean Biology. Dr. Monge regards him as a distinct climatological variety of the human race. The institute was founded (in 1930...
In the paneled "Room for Chamber Music" in Zurich's Congress House, delegates to the International Socialist Congress crammed a 40-hour week of discordant debating into four days, achieved nothing. A Dutch delegate remarked: "It's like a conference of tired businessmen." Said Leon Dennen, an unofficial...
The farmers give up only as much as they please to the German collectors-mostly simple villagers-and exchange the rest on the black market for commodities, rather than for nearly valueless marks. German officials, who are careful, for political reasons, not to antagonize the farmers, have no means of...