Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...position of the Berlin Government was most obscure. Beyond making a protest to the French authorities for the disarming of the German police in Bonn, Chancellor Stresemann maintained an ominous silence. The French returned the arms they had seized to the police...