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...library has sold some 4,000,000 books since 21-year-old Bernhard Baron Tauchnitz first thought of bringing U.S. and British authors to the Continent in handy format, at modest cost (about 20? a copy...
...connection with new duties [unspecified] which His Royal Highness is undertaking," The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard was made a rear admiral in the Dutch Navy, a major general in the Dutch Army...
Inventor of the camera, the late Bernhard Schmidt of Germany's Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory first described the device in 1931, but with uncooperative vagueness unusual in a scientist. U.S. astronomers-mostly amateurs-grasped Schmidt's hints, figured out how his lens, reflector and film must have been designed and assembled. When they had cleared up details in several experimental models, major U.S. observatories began building larger Schmidts. The biggest (24-36 inch) was dedicated last fortnight at Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Observatory, and others are nearing completion this week at Harvard, Mt. Palomar, Tonantzintla, Mexico...
Schoolmaster Ziemer managed his investigation of Nazi education by such devices as bribing Nazi officials with coffee and persuading Education Minister Bernhard Rust of his professional interest in Nazi educational "efficiency." Ziemer quit Germany for the U.S. at war's outbreak, smuggling out his notes and private Nazi pamphlets by hiding them under copies of Mein Kampf. His book is documented with names, places and direct quotations...
...Bernhard Rust, Minister of Science, Education and Popular Instruction, complained publicly that university teaching and scholarship are growing steadily worse...