Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth inning yesterday to overwhelm the Harvard College Society of Fellows, 11 to 9, in an abbreviated seven-inning contest on Soldiers Field. Giant hurler Clark Mellenhoff paced the Nieman attack with a double and a single in three trips to the plate and then relieved starter Bill German in the final three innings...
Last week, Fanatic Koch propounded an interesting ornithological theory: that chaffinches have different accents in different parts of the world. Playing the song of a British chaffinch, German-accented Dr. Koch said: "Ant now, as you vill see by my next record, zee German chaffinch, unlike zee Kent chaffinch, finishes op viz a sound like 'wurz debur.' " Sure enough...
...rather ominous news. A Viking rocket (body by Glenn L. Martin Co. propulsion by Reaction Motors, Inc.) had been launched from its deck to an altitude of 106.4 miles. This is only a few miles short of the record for single-stage rockets (114 mi.) made by the larger German...
...what Lifar's friends were looking for, they found it even sweeter in the reaction of Paris ballet critics. In the press next day, they did their share of booing and catcalling, too. Wrote one: "Frankie and Johnny . . . was a disaster, a monstrous exhibition ... in the worst of German taste...
...take her into Holy Matrimony. She, however, is simply deluding him in order to get to a friend, who is presumably still a Nazi, in St. Louis. Douglas' girl trots through the picture asking insane questions about the U. S., and representing unconsciously, symbolically, the problem of the German national character. She, and implicitly, the German, is possessed of a father complex, which permits easy control by a usurper. An afternoon's reading of the Constitution of the United States, however, enables her to hurdle her own necrosis and discover a new, improved meaning to life...