Word: breslau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born to the Steinmetzes of Breslau in April of 1865, alfresco play was difficult. Deformed son of a deformed father, gnomelike little Karl was smaller than most, also weak-legged, humpbacked, bigheaded, crablike. In kindergarten, learning became his play. From 7 to 17, shielded from religious influence, he developed into his Gymnasium's pride. Studying fundamentals of engineering at the University of Breslau, he kept his professors whole lecture hours arguing with...
Studying electricity did not prevent Steinmetz from craving companionship. He joined two student societies, the first a mathematical one where he was amid songs and beer dubbed Proteus, ever-changing old man of the sea. The second was the Breslau Student Socialist Society, of which he soon became chairman. Finding one night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work...
Died. Prince Karl Max von Lichnowsky, 68, indiscreetly honest German ambassador at the Court of St. James's just before the War; at his Silesian estate near Breslau, Germany; of apoplexy...
...nationalism has been constituted by the fact that certain ancient dioceses held by German and Hungarian prelates with authority from the Pope have naturally overlapped the new and sovereign frontier of Czechoslovakia. Gross and irksome has been the overlapping of the Hungarian diocese of Estergom, the German diocese of Breslau. Last week these points of friction and many another were neatly sanded down by the announcement that a modus vivendi had been signed between those two suave soothers of states and souls, Dr. Benes and the Papal Secretary of State, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri...
Other German territories seeking additional loans: Berlin, Hanover, Saxony, Prussia, Baden, Munich, Breslau, Frankfort, Hamburg, Chemnitz, Leipzig, Mannheim, Essen, Dusseldorf, Hagen...