Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin the military expert of the Tageblatt declared: "It might not be a feat of madness on Mussolini's part to invade the Nile Basin. We believe Italy could obtain the mastery of Egypt without the firing of a single shot in the Mediterranean...
...deed done, he fled from England with his daughter-south to Marseille, to Africa, to the Italian islands, to Berlin. He doubled and twisted cunningly to shake off the dreaded pursuer, but his hope dwindled. One night he gave himself away by getting drunk and writing a letter to his enemy, addressing it to Hell but in care of the proper London business address. After that it was only a matter of time before the pursuer found his hiding place. At last Wace went to earth in Berlin, smuggled himself into his daughter's apartment and decided never...
...Abbe, who is assisted by James E. Abbs Jr., has worked on L'Illustration and the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung. He has taken pictures of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Roosevelt, and worked in many countries. His work here will e to make a complete pictorial record of the life of the student in Cambridge. He has made similar studies at Oxford, Berlin University, Heidelberg, and Moscow University...
Last fortnight there were in captivity just two sea elephants, both in Germany. One day in the Hanover Zoo, four-ton Goliath III sighed through his dewlap snout and died. Forty-eight hours later in the Berlin Zoo, Roland flipped up his toenails, sagged his small head into his mountainous jowls and died...
...Roland was originally a little smaller (three tons) than Goliath. For years he has been wasting slowly away. Lately he had begun to lose 10 lb. a day and to turn up a face of monstrous grief, one eye closed, the other alert and blue (see cut). Last week Berlin Zoogoers attributed Roland's death to a heart broken by loneliness. Berlin doctors, however, set about knifing through a hide as thick as a truck tire for some more realistic reason for his demise...