Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Munich, received his degree of Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen in 1904. In 1908 he became professor of mathematics in the Lechnische Hoehschule of Hanover and then of Breslan. Since 1913 he has been professor of mathematics at the University of Gottingen, Berlin, Smyrna where he was also director of the university. Athens and Munich. He will lecture here during the second half year on mathematics...
...nouns and pronouns. He already speaks fluently French, Russian, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish- no English. He has 18 days in which to learn English before his passport expires. He will then be handed a U. S. Army enlistment examination. If he passes, this young aristocrat who has fought from Smyrna to the Ukraine will become a doughboy. Failure means deportation to Russia...
...Smyrna, once called "The Golden," now recovering slowly from a vile decay, 13 men wrote busily last week each his last will and testament...
White, billowy garments were brought to the condemned. Placards setting forth their guilt were hung about their necks. Attended each by an executioner, they marched in silence to the Smyrna quay...
...transatlantic flights of the British R34 in 1919 were 3,600 and 3,450 mi., both nonstop. The first really long dirigible flight was made in 1917 by the German L-59, from Jamoli, Bulgaria, via Smyrna, the Mediterranean and the Libyan desert into East Africa and return - about 4,500 mi. without a stop