Word: franco-prussian
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...Germany raised enough food to feed her population of 40,997,000. But the years between the Franco-Prussian and the World Wars saw a three-fold growth of the city population, while the rural population stood still. After 1900 the trend frightened the military clique into demanding increased tariff protection for the farmer, and just before the famous shot was fired at Sarajevo the Kaiser's advisers were only reasonably certain that the food situation could withstand...
Brushing aside the plagiary charge, authors Morgan Preston '39, David Lannon '39, and Alan Lerner '40 stated that they had written the play last Spring, borrowing the title from a Pudding show produced during the Franco-Prussian War. I. A. L. Diamond, sophomore author of the Columbia book, admits lifting his title from Pegler...
Jean Baptiste Perrin has studied the atom all his long life. Born at Lille during the Franco-Prussian War, he became a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Paris in 1910, became an expert on molecular oscillations and the Brownian movement (movement of visible particles in liquids because of impacts from flying molecules). In 1926 he was awarded a Nobel Prize. Today he is president of the French Academy of Sciences. Last week he announced the discovery of naturally occurring ekarhenium-element...
Alfred Krupp was the particular protégé of Bismarck and Wilhelm I. The Franco-Prussian War advertised his products and the Krupp firm became the greatest manufacturer of armaments in the world. Alfred Krupp retired to his castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia...
First battlefield appearance of Red Cross units was in the Dano-Prussian War of 1864. The Red Cross was respected as a protecting symbol for doctors, nurses, medical units in many later wars-the Austro-Prussian, the Franco-Prussian, the Russo-Japanese, the Balkan, the World War, in some Colonial wars, in a few civil wars. Not until 1935 did the first flagrant, consistent abuse of the Red Cross symbol occur. Then giant red crosses painted on Ethiopian hospitals became welcome targets for Italian airmen. Against this abuse, International Red Cross President Max Huber, former justice of The Hague...