Word: ulm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Born in a comfortable middle-class family at Ulm, on the Danube, in 1879, Albert Einstein spent his youth in Munich, where his father was part-owner of an electrotechnical plant. When Albert was 15, family reverses took the Einsteins to Milan. There he left school to study art, then to Zurich to learn how to become a breadwinning engineer. In 1902 he got a job in the Bern Patent Office as engineer and technical adviser. Three years later, when he was 26, he published his cosmos-shaking Special Theory of Relativity in the Annals of Physics. His General...
...last week were still the centre of a tug-of-war between Church and State. Only group not yet absorbed by the Hitlerjugend, they have been badgered in districts throughout Germany, forbidden to wear uniforms, parade or even play games in public. Typical was their treatment last week in Ulm, where the police forbade them to hold a "parents' evening...
...this residence from about 1858 until 1863 lived Dr. William W. Mayo, noted physician and father of the world-famous surgeons, Dr. William J. and Dr. Charles Mayo, the former being born here in 1861. During the Sioux attacks on New Ulm in August, 1862, Dr. William W. Mayo acted as surgeon for the defenders...