Word: prussianization
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Washburne graduated from the Law School in 1839, after which time he distinguished himself as a member of Congress-from 1852 until 1869, and as Minister to France during the years 1869-77, in the height of the Franco-Prussian war, when Paris itself was threatened by the enemy...
...Whereas wealthy and victorious England is well able to care for her disabled soldiers," reads the will, "disabled German soldiers (the great majority of whom were conscripted under the former rigorous system of Prussian militarism) can only receive meagre pensions in their poor, defeated country...
Last week he came out, announced to the world in general and the Prussian Academy of Sciences in particular that he had revised his original work, had gone one step further, had solved his field equations for a definite set of physical facts...
...action resembling that of a swimmer as he turns on his back to float. The other whale well in the rear and swimming back up, would suddenly put on a burst of speed-full ahead, both engines-- as he ploughed a snowy, straight-as-an-arrow furrow through the Prussian-blue sea, which brought him swiftly forward to form that perfect, blissful contact with his mate...
Author Alfred Neumann, 35, is a Prussian, now lives in Munich. He made a reputation with Der Patriot (1925), Konig Haber (1926), won the Kleist Prize (1926) with Der Teufel. Other books: Die Rebellen, Rebels, Guerra (translation to be published this spring...