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...Wells and Bertrand Russell, seeing everywhere harbingers of Western obsolescence, nevertheless resist this unpleasant evidence with faith in the perpetual constructive force of human will & intellect. Oswald Spengler of Munich scorns such precarious optimism as only another instance of the pathetic pride which Romans, Egyptians and Orientals felt at the height of their refulgence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patterns in Chaos | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...nature of the provitamine, from which is derived Vitamine D, useful in curing rickets. Thus he became the second resident of Goettingen to be so honored. The other, Dr. Professor Richard Szigmondy, won the 1925 Nobel chemistry prize. The 1927 prize for chemistry was awarded to University of Munich's professor Heinrich Wieland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nobel Goettingen | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Latest and most spectacular of all Opel experiments is the low, winged rocket car. Inventor Valier, Builder Sanders, tried it secretly last April over the Opel tracks in Munich. But in June, young Fritz von Opel, sporting son of a gruff Geheimrat, sent it at a speed of 156 miles per hour over railroad tracks near Hanover. Nine-foot streaks of flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Opel of Russelheim | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Married. Duke Nicholas of Leuchtenberg, 32, descendant of famed families of Beauharnais (France), Romanowsky (Russia); to Ella Miller, hairdresser's maid of Munich; in Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...film, taken last summer, consists of six reels, showing scenes in Hamburg and other Hanseatic towns, Berlin, Dresden, Leipsig, Weinar, Nuremburg, Munich, the Bavarian Alps, and other sections of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURKHARD SHOWS MOVIES DEPICTING GERMAN LIFE | 11/7/1928 | See Source »

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