Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the two countries. The House of Habsburg was only saved in this instance by the opposition of the Slavs to the Magyars and the consequent state of civil war. At the end of 1848 the Emperor Franz Josef I ascended the throne on the abdication of Ferdinand I, and early next year the Hungarians were defeated and deprived of all constitutional rights...
When Marco Polo returned from the East there had been no World War. His story was not muffled by the thunder of national cataclysms. He set the West by the ears, and opened new paths of activity and progress to the existing civilization. Dr. Ferdinand Ossendowski, author of "Beasts, Men and Gods", is another Polo if ever there was one; but unfortunately in the whirling events of today his startling epic is too apt to be passed over, or classified as just "another of those war books...
...tomb of Queen Isabella and her consort, King Ferdinand, was robbed of the cross on the top part of the famous iron screen that surrounds their last resting place in the Royal Chapel of the Cathedral of Granada. The Government issued warrants for the arrests of the robbers, who sold the cross as old iron to several dealers...
...Ferdinand Seeger, noted throat specialist, died in New York of pneumonia at the age of 75, closing a career of remarkably able and disinterested service. He was known not only in this country but abroad, and had degrees from 32 medical schools, including his alma mater, Heidelberg. At one time he was decorated by the Czar of Russia for saving the life of one of the Russian Princes; at another, he refused the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York in order to continue his medical work Although he treated many of the rich, he was noted in Manhattan...
...yesterday's contests between the Law School and the University: D. M. Key '22 defeated C. H. Hyams 1L.; R. C. Smith '22 defeated Lawrence Foster 1L.; F. W. Crocker 1L. defeated Myles P. Baker '22; D. M. Gilmore 1L. defeated E. M. Hinkle '24; Carroll Harrington '24 defeated Ferdinand Jelke 3d 3L.; D. P. Kingsley 1L. defeated C. J. Mason 22; D. R. Wilson '22 defeated C. C. Colt...