Word: viktor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austria's four Communist deputies (Ernst Fischer, Johann Koplenig, Franz Honner, Viktor Elser) wrote to Moscow to ask whether something could not be done about the prisoners. Last week Generalissimo Stalin graciously replied: "The Soviet Government has decided to speed up the release and transport of Austrian prisoners of war . . . in such a way as to grant the return of all Austrians before the end of the year. . . ." As an afterthought, he added: "The Austrian Government will be informed of [this]. . . ." Vienna's Communist Volksstimme jubilantly pointed the moral: "Today not only Austrian women but the entire Austrian...
...humanity may be divided into three groups: 1) hapticals, 2) visuals, and 3) in-betweens. So says Professor Viktor Lowenfeld, an eminent Viennese psychologist now at Hampton Institute in Virginia, who in 1939 deeply impressed artists with a book offering a new theory about The Nature of Creative Activity. Professor Lowenfeld explains that visuals are people who think of objects primarily in terms of what they see; hapticals, in terms of the sense of touch and kinesthetic (muscular) sensations...
...there was still fight left in the Nazis. They concentrated their strength to hold a hedgehog near Jelgava (Mitau) and thus kept open a small exit for their troops from the northeast. Even after the capture of Jelgava by tankers of Lieut. General Viktor Obukov, the Germans stood their ground, backed up against the Gulf of Riga. Until the first of this week, an escape corridor was still open, with Nazis streaming through it to fight another...
...Died. Viktor Lutze, 53, one-eyed Chief of Staff of the Nazi Storm Troops since the 1934 purging of Captain Ernst Roehm; of injuries when his car struck another; in Potsdam...
...after 17 days the dogged push began to slow up. The Germans had retreated slowly to the line of their stoutest defenses, then held. And while the Germans stood the battering, they flung reserves into action. Under 57-year-old Lieut. General Viktor von Schwedler, they knifed savagely into the Russians below Kharkov in the Barvenkovo-Izyum area. The Russians, admitting that it was a surprise attack, braced to meet it. The Germans were stopped. Once again the Russian defense proved itself...