Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are really lots of fields within the Classics department. You can concentrate in Greek, Latin, just plain Classics, Classics and a related language (like English, French, or German), and Classics and a related subject (like Fine Arts, History, or Philosophy...
...September, 1926, a wealthy industrialist named Rudolf Haas was arrested in Magdeburg, Germany, charged with murder. He was later released and his honor restored when another man, one Richard Schroeder, was found guilty of the crime. In 1947, a German film company took this incident and with the superb acting for which German motion pictures have always been noted, used it in an excellent film, "The Affair Blum," as a focus for the anti-semitism in the German character which Hitler later worked up into the frenzy of Nazism...
...World War II, the Germans had an enormous lead over non-German rocket men. To show some of the progress made since by the U.S., General Electric Co. last week gave a guarded glimpse of its rocket motor laboratory at Malta, near Schenectady. The massive test-stands are hidden in a 3,000-acre pine forest well marked with "restricted" signs. Closely shepherded newsmen and photographers did not learn much, except that G.E. has been busy on rockets since 1945, when it first undertook to assemble captured...
...Richard W. Porter, head of "Project Hermes," as G.E. calls its rocket program with Army Ordnance, feels that the German lead has been overcome. The G.E. rocket motors, some of which were static-tested spectacularly for the visitors, are about 10% more efficient than the motors of the V-25. They are smaller for the equivalent power, and they burn commercially pure alcohol instead of the alcohol mixed with 25% water that the Germans used to hold down the heat of combustion. The improvements, Dr. Porter believes, will show up in payload-the ultimate payoff of rocketry. G.E. does...
Nonentities in Brown. In 1933, as the music critic of the Berlin Tageblatt, Einstein was obliged to attend the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth held in honor of Adolf Hitler. When he found his German colleagues had become nonentities in brown uniforms, he decided he "couldn't stand it any longer." He shipped his priceless collection of music-manuscript copies to England and then followed them. Now Einstein looks on his years as a music critic as a "nightmare" when he had time to be "only a bricklayer in musicology." By chasing him out of this rut and back...