Word: europa
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...sister ships, the longest in the world (938 feet), were launched, last week, from German yards, and will go into service late next spring for the North German Lloyd. The sisters are Europa and Bremen. Though slim and expected to challenge the trans-Atlantic speed record held by the Cunarder Mauretania, the Teuton sisters will be no lightweights (46,500 tons each). Thus they will be but little lighter than the two heaviest liners in the world: Leviathan and Majestic, which were originally Hamburg-American sister ships, but were snatched from Germany by the Allies...
...Europa had a bottle of champagne smashed over her sharp nose, last week at Hamburg, after the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, Jacob Gould Schurman, had delivered the launching oration in fluent German...
...hail the Bremen and the Europa as new links between Europe and America. I hail them as manifestations of the indestructible German capacity for work...
...previous record was 52 hr. 22 min., 31 sec., held by the German aviators Johann Risticz and Cornelius Edzard at Dessau, Germany, in July 1927-in the Europa, sistership of the Bremen...
...color used by the impressionists to express a naturalistic effect of light. As compared with most American and British painting done in the same vein, there is a pleasant lightness of touch in most of these pictures. After our over-seriousness, even the obvious "fooling" in examples like the "Europa" and the "View of the Seine" are a delightful relief...