Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which time he did a great deal to further the prestige of that university. He was the author of a great many books on philology, besides works in his particular field of Sanskrit, he composed French and German grammars and translated several foreign books, among them being Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell." He had the general supervision of the publication of the "Century International Dictionary" and was the author of numerous writings on word derivations...
Unlike a first-class flivver, speed is to be the prime requisite, for to catch the elusive U-boat one must be able to sail circles around it. As is to be expected, comfort will not be found in anything built at the Ford plant. Much less will Wilhelm II rejoice at the thought of these pests among his imperial submersibles, for he can no longer rest assured of his weekly and ever-weakening toll of Allied vessels. Per chance Kultur will make him scoff when he hears a flivver manufacturer is going to check his naval warfare, but more...
...agree with Kaiser Wilhelm who yesterday, in response to birthday congratulations from President Kaempf of the Reichstag, said: "I begin a serious and decisive year." The world did not know before that the Kaiser openly admitted the gravity of his situation. In the rest of his response, it is true, the Kaiser speaks in a different vein, but seven words of truth forced their way out among sentences of sham for public consumption. The Allies have tried to make things serious the decisive for over three years now, but Teutonic organization has made their game a slow one. This year...
...boats are coming! At least so the Kaiser has informed the world. Thired of his meagre diet of English and French ships, the War Lord looks for new cannon-food, new worlds to conquer. To pursue the elusive Fall River liners is Wilhelm's latest ambition; to shell Revere would terrorize the Americans,--would soon end the war. It is indeed a rosy picture with which to lure on the terrible Teuton...
...prologue and seven tableaux D'Indy depicts incidents in the life of Wilhelm, a master bell founder. The masterpiece of his career is a great bell which rings only after his death...