Word: bergenland
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Suddenly the newspapers told of the acquittal of three young men, reactionary Nationalists, who had been on trial since February for killing a man and a child, during a brawl between Nationalists and Social Democrats in the Province of Bergenland. The guilt of the three young Nationalists had seemed a moral certainty; but Bergenland is so strongly Nationalist that many feared their conviction might cause riots there. When it was announced last week that the youths had been acquitted, Bergenland was quiet, smug; but Vienna, where Communists and Social Democrats vastly outnumber Nationalists, burst into demonstrations of irritation which verged...
...Saturday last the Haverford College cricket team sailed on the steamship "Bergenland" for England, where they will play against the leading public schools and universities. The trip is the result of the visit of the combined Oxford and Cambridge teams to this country last fall...
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