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Searched for scale in Diaries (138 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1916-09-08

    ... the "Little Library." The scales in the drugstore confirms that we have put on weight – in my case (92.6 kg) and Lie-Liechen (69.25 kg) – we are each roughly 2½ kilograms heavier! Lie-Liechen searches in vain for butter and alcohol; in the afternoon ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-10-25

    ... shabby maneuvers in English diplomacy, he is incapable of remembering anything at all. As common as such experience may be, it nevertheless works on such a vast scale and in light of such immensely tragic events like the revelation of an entirely new side ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-11-13

    ... one's lifetime, the effect of a gift intended for the world is something that a rich man cannot bring himself to do; only after his egoism has breathed its last breath and he has long put up his feet, then what may come may come. On a grand scale ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-06-26

    ... oneself – all the more when the person doing the explaining is an ordinary person to whom one is not accustomed to weighing their words on a scale, indeed someone whose information one must give cause for concern. In the further pursuit of this idea, I ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-01-03

    ... this, especially leading to death, possesses mystical powers the scale of which man will undoubtedly never be able to discover. On saying goodbye, Miss Sabine slipped us a cardboard box, which she said was filled with peas from Galicia; but when we got ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-02-21

    ... ". Czech agrarians opposed to large-scale land occupation. Neues Wiener Tagblatt: "The Middle Classes' Red Pencil" – a pithy response to the Social Democrats' plan of action: makes an accusation of reckless opposition, administrative wastefulness; in favor ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-01-23

    ... , to look at his watch to see if I had measured his lesson precisely on the scales of time! The cleaners have still not sent the two cloths they owe me. ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-10-24

    ... Rothschild, has Heine atone only for Heine, for his following, when according to his principle he should much rather be addressing Rothschild as the cause. He avoids putting Rothschild on the scales and apparently thinks that Heine, in spite of the lesser ...

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