Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father Grosjean made a most unecclesiastical reply: "They aren't all imbeciles." He gave an example: "At Mass, when I was ordained, I lauded the father of one of my friends. He was an old anarchist. My anarchist pals had asked me to do it. The bishop of Strasbourg was delighted...
Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...
...time he was 24, Schweitzer had published a volume on Immanuel Kant, earned two doctorates (theology and philosophy) at Strasbourg University, and become a curate. His superiors had to order him to preach for a full 20 minutes when parishioners complained that Schweitzer just "stopped speaking when he found he had nothing more to say." As a sideline, he wrote (in French) a definitive study of Bach, and rewrote it from scratch in German, because the idea of mere translation bored...
...Betray Me." In 1929 an accomplished grave robber came to Egypt. Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg University, well financed by a French subsidy, dug for more than ten years in the salty soil near the ruins of Tanis. At last he found the tomb. In 1940 Pharaoh Psousennes, with all his treasure, was exposed to modern stares...
Ever since his graduation from Vienna, in 1908, von Mises has taught in various European universities. After serving at Strasbourg and Dresden, he joined the faculty of the University of Berlin in 1920, and while there founded and became director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics. Leaving Germany upon the arrival of Hitler in 1933, von Mises went to the University of Istanbul, where he taught for six years before coming to Harvard...