Word: frankfurt
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Hermanns holds advanced degrees from the College of Economics in Berlin and from the University in Frankfurt and has also taken courses in the Universities of Geneva, Paris, and London...
...Germans on & on, to defeat them on their own blood-dry soil. Since it took the German central Armies five great battles to get within field-glass view of Moscow, it was not likely that the Russians would now be able to surge in one unbroken wave to Stettin, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder and Breslau. This first happy plunge would necessarily wear itself out. Whether an other would succeed it was the crucial question...
Britain gave more than it took. In bombing sweeps over the Continent, Wellington, Hampden, Whitley bombers dropped miniature earthquakes on Stuttgart, Stettin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and other towns. A British raid on Boulogne was so heavy that it shook and boomed across the Channel, could be heard plainly in British coastal towns. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair dreamily heralded a British blitz "to prepare the way for advance of the Allied Armies into Germany...
...West Point was ready for sea. But still it did not sail. She was held up, rumor said, because 234 U.S. consular officials in Europe, on their way to Lisbon from posts in Axis territory, had been halted near the German and Italian borders, were to be kept in Frankfurt am Main and San Remo until the West Point delivered her passengers in Lisbon.* At 3:15 o'clock next afternoon, she sailed at last...
Died. Professor Ludwig Harald Schütz 68, formidably learned German scholar, author of works on physics, the teachings of Confucius, the origin of language, the soul of Japan; in Frankfurt-am-Main. Master of 200 languages and dialects Dr. Schütz once put a U. S. Indian circus team in their place by informing them in their own tongue that they were not Sioux as they advertised, but Pawnees...