Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, returned from a vacation at Lugano, and the Cabinet held a meeting. It was decided to withdraw the Government subsidy to the German press. The subsidy was granted to keep down the price of paper. Newspapers in Berlin cost on an average 5? apiece...
...cats must be muzzled, said an official edict at Berlin. Any pussyfooted quadruped will be shot on sight if it is muzzleless. The measure was thought necessary owing to several cases of "feline hydrophobia" having been discovered...
...Allied Military Control Commission arrived in Berlin. Berliners snowballed the members. The despatch did not say whether this demonstration was one of friendship or hate. The latter was presumed...
...career was as picturesque as his personality, about which innumerable legends survive. He was always a prodigy. Born at Charleston, S. C., in 1831, he translated Anacreon at 12, graduated from Princeton with high honors at 18. He studied in Germany, at Berlin, Bonn, Gottingen, and upon his return became Professor of Greek at the University of Virginia, in 1856. He was called to organize a department of Greek at Johns Hopkins 20 years later, and it was during his 47 years of residence in Baltimore that he made his reputation as a man of prodigious learning and irrepressible...
Admiral von Tirpitz, Hochadmiral der Deutsche See Flotte warhend des Krieges: "A Berlin despatch stated that I inserted a want advertisement in a newspaper, announcing that any modest young man wishing a quiet, refined abode might have a furnished room in my residence...