Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower drove at a 50-mile-an-hour clip to Coblenz. The French, who do not forget that they are the conquerors, had cleared a 60-mile stretch of road of all traffic; even an ambulance and a funeral waited while Ike passed. In the crowd at Coblenz a German youth jostled a French cavalry colonel. The officer pushed the youth, threatened to slap his face, then turned to hear Ike make an address on the importance of allied officers' befriending the Germans...
...colonels he led his regiment to the landing on Utah Beach in Normandy. For Colonel Van Fleet, battle was the true test. Within seven months he was a major general, commander first of the 4th, then the 90th Divisions. He fought the 90th across the flooded Moselle against heavy German counterattacks. By March 1945, he was commander of the III Corps and spearheading the First Army's advance into Germany. Eisenhower called Van Fleet's battle record the best "of any regimental, divisional or corps commander we produced...
...Good Fool. Berg, who died at 50 in 1935, got the idea for Wozzeck in a "drama fragment" by the gifted but short-lived German playwright, Georg Büchner (1813-37). In the stormy aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and in a period of liberal revolutions, Büchner had written the tragedy of a clodlike Prussian soldier named Franz Wozzeck...
There are no prerequisites, though a knowledge of French and German is required before the end of the third year of concentration. Ultimately, Chairman Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36 hopes of offer concentration in Indian Studies in addition to the present program...
Concentrators will find formidable language requirements of Latin, Greek, French, German, and two Semitic languages. If, however, your interests are purely scholarly, this could be your field. It is unequalled for individual instruction and tutorial...