Word: zuricher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greek woman gave birth to a son by a Russian father. The boy made his way out of the Levant by means best known to himself, picked up ten languages here and there, picked up tips as a waiter in one of the great hotels at Zurich, picked up an education of sorts in England, became interested in the munitions industry, and made the acquaintance of a certain influential Spanish lady...
Physiologists and physicians made no mockery of a new announcement last week by one Joe H. Pos, civil engineer of Portland, Ore., graduate of the University of Zurich. He said he had constructed an "electric-radio" machine, that regulated blood pressure, whether high or low and he exhibited a box, like a radio receiving-set, of bulbs, coils, condensers, arms, doohickies, thingumbobs, gadgets, gimcracks. On top of the case are two brass arms, one of which constructor Pos points at the back of the patient's head, the other at his stomach-that is, at the medulla...
...Poet. Born 38 years ago. "near Pittsburgh," John Robinson Jeffers had a wandering childhood in Europe; studied Arts, Medicine, Literature, Forestry successively at Occidental College (Los Angeles), University of Southern California, University of Zurich (Switzerland) and University of Washington. In 1916, he published Californians, narrative poems celebrative of the state he had adopted, but acclamation of this book, as of Tamar, was inaudible east of the Sierras. Mr. Jeffers has never contributed to magazines, "thinking that poetry is nothing if it is not individual." Near Monterey, on a stormy ocean cliff, he and his wife live in "a thick-walled...
...wish more Americans could see Zurich. It is an example of how beautiful, yet practical, a city can be made. Shopping here is a real delight...
Thursday, August 13--At Interlaken. Afternoon train to Zurich...