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Correct. But how did these cities get back to Finnish names? After the conclusion of World War I, the spirit of nationalism, inspired by Wilson's famed Fourteen points, became rampant. The ancient Finnish names were restored. Helsingfors became Helsinki. Viborg became Wipuri and so on down the list...
...lofty official chamber, his long, sensitive hands clasped and unclasped in thought, to Cordell Hull's ears came only the muffled tick of the ancient grandfather clock that has been in the Department of State offices since 1777. But the tick may well have seemed like the tick of a timebomb. He had just received a blunt warning-a demand by Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg that Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements be investigated by the Senate...
Garrulous Old Boy. North of the Bay of Pylos in Greece, the University of Cincinnati's Archeologist Carl William Blegen unearthed fire-scarred remains of a building which he identified as the palace of Nestor, ancient king of Pylos-the garrulous old boy of the Iliad and Odyssey who was always dishing out advice and talking about his early exploits. Pottery found on the floors was dated near the close of the 13th Century B. C., putative time of the siege of Troy. Digger Blegen declared that more than 600 clay tablets, apparently bearing lists of persons, inventories...
...ancient saying that only he can die peacefully who has sons and daughters must be translated into fact during this war by the SS. Beyond the limits of bourgeois laws and customs which ordinarily are probably necessary, it can become an exalted task even outside of wedlock for German women and girls of good blood to become-not frivolously but imbued with deepest moral concern-mothers of children begotten by soldiers moving to the front without knowing whether they will return or die for the Fatherland...
...Pilgrimage is a running verse-commentary on the workaday stages of being an American, from the cradle to the grave. The start, as Hoyne sees it, is a weaning from "transcendental, ancient, Continental lies...