Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stiff white duck hats, Frenchmen in their flat caps with red pom-poms and Dutchmen in their black streamered hats all but drank the local pubs dry. Field Marshal Montgomery, chief of Western Union's joint command, held a reception on board H.M.S. Implacable. The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard gave a cocktail party aboard the Tromp, which was named after one of the few admirals of any nation who soundly beat the British on the seas...
...Schmidt telescope was invented by Estonian-born Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935). Scientist Schmidt spent years studying the failings of refracting (lens) telescopes and reflecting (mirror) telescopes. Finally he devised a sort of compromise. His telescope has a concave spherical mirror, which is much easier to make than the parabolic mirror of a reflecting telescope. In front of it, to bring the light to a focus without "spherical aberration," is a correcting plate so slightly curved that it looks like plain sheet glass. The Schmidt telescope's advantage: it can take pictures of large patches of sky and have them...
Queen Juliana of The Netherlands turned 40. She stayed home in Soestdyk Palace with husband Bernhard and their four daughters, while military parades and civil celebrations were staged in every town, and church bells set up a clamor all across her little country...
Stranded and broke in Paris after World War I, Bernhard got his first newspaper job on the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, after a period as a tourist guide. Later he was city editor of the Detroit Free Press, moved on to become managing editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and five years ago went to Pittsburgh. Since then, the P-G has picked up 50,000 in circulation to hit a top of 300,000, has handily held its position as Pittsburgh's biggest daily. For his Sunday paper, Andy Bernhard has already signed up a new staff...
Like the daily Gazette, the Sunday edition will be "a very conventional job." Said Andy Bernhard: "We are just going to do seven days a week what we have been doing...