Word: chiefest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...footsteps of his fathers;" as a grandson and son of the founders of the German Empire, and as admiral of the German navy. Major Higginson spoke of the debt America owes to Germany for her great figures in literature, for her great musicians, for her industrial achievements, and chiefest of all for the rich and many sided manhood of the German race. He spoke of the educational debt America owes to Germany for the work of American students in German universities, the debt the nation owes to those German immigrants who form so considerable a part of its population...