Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying speck vanished away from the aerodrome at Le Bourget, outside Paris. They saw it pass near Strasbourg. Austrians and Hungarians glanced aloft shortly after. Dour Serbs eyed its flight over their dark mountains. Quarrelsome Bulgars and the night-watchmen of Constantinople heard its thin droning and all night it sped on over Anatolia, Kurdistan, down the Euphrates Valley to meet the dawn. At Basra in Irak, where the Euphrates, led by the Tigris, floods down to the Persian Gulf and men are said to have flown on magic carpets, the speck finally came to earth. Captain Ludovic Arrachart...
...through both Americas (only three cases in the year). 4) Malaria-proved that paris green prevents breeding of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 5) Medical Education-gave money to U. S. universities or schools at Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Trinidad, Sao Paolo, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Brussels, Utrecht, Strasbourg, Beirut, Singapore, Bankok, Montreal, Peking. 6) Nursing-help to training schools in U. S., China, Brazil, France, Jugoslavia and Poland. 7) Biology-aid to Johns Hopkins, Yale, Iowa State. 8) Fellowships- to 842 men and women from 44 different countries. 9) League of Nations-traveling expenses of 128 health officers from...
...Strasbourg, France, a schoolmaster, one Bernard Joerg, lived with his dog. Last week the two went for a walk. Lost in abstraction, M. Joerg started to cross a railroad track; a train leaped out of the twilight, sprang at his shoulder like a huge beast, spun him around through the air, smashed his legs against a fence. Townsfolk came running-stopped, terrified, a dozen yards from the moaning, broken body. At Joerg's feet crouched the dog. Something had hurt his master, let no one else try it. The dark snarling beast, the little circle of white faces...
...While self-culture with Goethe was primarily an affair of the inner man, he did not neglect the body. In his autobiography he tells us of how he overcame certain physical weaknesses during his student days in Strasbourg. Living before our mechanical age, he was not accustomed to loud noises, which jarred his nerves. He trained his nerves by standing close to the drummers of the French garrison every evening when they sounded tattoo, a rather violent method as he admits himself...
...rewarded by the erection of a suitable memorial tablet at the expense of the village fathers of Camembert. Gourmets heard of this fitting tribute to an obscure genius with approval, recalled that it was only a couple of years ago that a monument was erected in Strasbourg by public subscription to M. Close, inventor of the technique by which pâté de foie gras, often called the chef d'oeuvre of the French cuisine, is produced...