Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were the facts about a new synthetic fibre, recited last week in Kansas City, by Dr. Ernest Baden Benger of du Pont de Nemours & Co. Nearly 2,000 chemists, some of them from England, Switzerland and Holland, were assembled there for the 91st convention of the American Chemical Society...
...strategists dared neither bring him to trial nor chop off his head. Despite all the exiles, all the concentration camps, all the executions, there were still enough undercover followers of Ernst Thalmann left at large in Germany last week to spread a thin layer of anti-Nazi leaflets from Switzerland to the Baltic...
...birth; his fairy godmothers gave him health, wealth, happiness. Sargent made a drawing of him as a six-year-old. He soon delighted his parents by giving precocious signs of being a sportsman. At the age of 8 he took a 7½-hr. ski trip in Switzerland with his father, successfully negotiating a 2,600-ft. descent. And he gave early signs of a forceful originality. Reporting Antony's convalescence from measles, his father wrote: "Antony has had a very good day and is quite peaceful. He asked for buttered eggs, sardines & blood!" Day before he was sent...
After Eton, Oxford seemed dull. His family was off in India where his father was serving as Governor of Bengal and the bright spots in Antony's life were skiing vacations in Switzerland. He was "sent down" for a fortnight for playing in a roulette game, worried his distant family by his frank reports of dissipation ("No wonder people get drunk at Oxford! It is a silly life!"). But he won his "blue" for boxing, made more friends, did some studying and began to think for himself. His first encounter with Carlyle did not impress him: "What a queer...
...revealed, but as part payment Farnsworth got U. S. rights to Bosch and Zeiss patents controlled by Fernseh. These include a yellow receiving screen which is supposed to be superior to RCA-Victor's green screen. Fernseh got exclusive Farnsworth rights in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland, where it has subsidiaries...