Word: richter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently, the German People's Party (semi-Monarchists) withdrew its two members-Herr Richter, Minister of Finance, Herr Doktor Boelitz, Minister of Education from the Socialist Government of Prussia, headed by Herr Otto Braun. Premier Braun took over the vacant portfolios...
...Adolf Keller of Zurich, Switzerland, and Professor Julius H. Richter of the University of Berlin ascribed the poverty of European Protestantism to disestablishment resulting from revolutions and depreciation of currencies...
...painting represents a man, a virile Venetian with a full beard, carrying a falcon in his hand, and the suggestion has been made that it is a portrait of Giorgio Cornaro. The picture has all the breadth and freedom of treatment that is associated with Titian's name. Mr. Richter, in his book, says he thinks it was probably painted about...
Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John Richter, flying in an Army de Haviland over San Diego, broke all previous endurance records by staying up for nearly 45 hours. Incidentally Smith and Richter broke speed records in covering distances of 2,500, 3,000, 3,500 and 4,000 kilometers. But most important of all, they achieved a complete demonstration of the possibility of refuelling from the air. Twice they received gasoline from a sister ship above them and they even got a nice, hot breakfast on a third aerial contact. The extension of this system of refuelling opens new vistas...
Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a city built upon the coal industry. This is perfectly literal, since many of the mines run under the city and buildings not infrequently cave in as a result of dangerous tunneling. Now it has been discovered by mining engineers employed by the city that the Richter Coal Company has been unlawfully mining beneath Nay Aug Park, thus imperilling the lives of hundreds of pleasure seeking citizens. But it appears that the coal digging was not illegal because it endangered people's lives; it was illegal because the coal belongs to the Scranton Coal Company, which...