Word: austro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While the matter waited, there waited also for inspection the superb Kaiserliche-Königliche Hofburg (Imperial and Royal Palace), the onetime residence of Franz-Josef, and all the now decadent chateaux and pleasure resorts of the former Austro-Hungarian nobility. The night sparkle of Vienna is gone but its substantial daylight glories remain...
...half-backs achieve broken collar bones, skiers leap at 90 miles an hour into snowdrifts where many a hip is twisted awry. Last week Sport, most ogreish of modern Deities, lured Frãulein Elfriede Lucker of Dresden and four male companions up the snow-swept Bratschenkopf, near the Austro-German frontier...
...went out to play, the family gardener fired the young Paul's imagination with tales of how he had served as a drummer-boy under Frederick the Great. At the age of "eighteen-and-a-half" Paul had won his way through military school to lieutenantship in the Austro-Prussian War. Said he, years afterward, "I made no choice of a profession. To fight was 'the only thing to do,' 'eine Selbstverstandlichkeit...
...Poles have been "pulling through" under adversity for generations. The anciently independent state known as "Poland" was twice partitioned among Prussia, Russia and Austria -at the end of the 18th Century and at the beginning of the 19th. In 1914 only "Austrian Poland" was autonomous. During the war Austro-German forces occupied "Russian Poland," and in 1916 Wilhelm II and Franz Josef proclaimed the independence of "Poland" without defining the area which they referred to by that term. Repeated attempts were then made by "Poles" to organize a government among themselves. Not until after the War, however, did they succeed...
...Sadowa or Königgratz (1866): battle in the Austro-Prussian War which ended the old German Confederation (composed of both German and Austrian states) and resulted in the North German Confederation, the nucleus of the German Empire. Sedan (1870): battle in the Franco-Prussian War in which the Emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner. There was declared to be a "vacancy of power" in France, and the third Republic (the present...