Word: deutschland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left eye of Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling was observed to be discolored after his July 3 fight with W. L. ("Young") Stribling. Last week was published an official diagnosis made by two physicians to the Boxing Board of Deutschland: "The left eye of Mr. Schmeling . . . shows an injury to the bony surroundings of the eye, bleeding of the conjunctiva, and a contusion of the eyeball, connected with swimming of objects before the eye and photophobe. . . ." The diagnosis made it plain that Max Schmeling will not defend his championship against Monstrous Primo Camera next September...
...Yawuz Sultan Selim slid down the ways of the Hamburg ship- builders Blohm & Voss (builders of the Europa) as the German battle cruiser Goeben. ?Speedy, heavily armored, with innumerable watertight compartments, she was as far ahead of her time as Germany's latest 1931 warship, the pocket battleship Deutschland. At the beginning of the War she slipped through the British and French Mediterranean squadrons to Constantinople, where she was nominally attached to the Turkish Navy as the Sultan Selim...
...high hats were presently in position. A glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius out of lightest, strongest materials, was just Cruiser...
President von Hindenburg is 83 years old. Such men do not throw bottles with all their strength. By the time Cruiser A was about one-third into the water, President von Hindenburg cried out, "Deutschland be thy name...
Next, although the Deutschland was where she was, President von Hindenburg produced and read his christening address. "And now glide down into your element and join the ocean!" read HINDENBURG, a hero so great that no one snickered. "Do your duty there! May it be to give proof of German work and German efficiency and to protect the Fatherland. Always keep your flag clean and high in honor! Then you will be worthy of the name which I give you-Deutschland...