Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Founded in 1795, as a union of the five French academies of arts and sciences, the oldest and most honorable being the Académie Française, established 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu. Members of the Academy are France's Immortals, their immortality guaranteed by government decree. Other academies are: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Académie des Sciences; Académie des Beaux Arts; Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques...
...greater than the sum (10,000 francs, or about $390) is the honor attached to the annual R. E. P.-Hirsch prize of the French Astronomical Society. Far greater than the practical effect was the imaginative content of the work for which a young German named Oberth, experimenting in Rumania, last week received this year's Hirsch award...
After praising Herr Oberth and giving him the prize, the French Astronomical Society gravely warned that trips to the moon are still wholly impractical...
Meanwhile there waited for good weather-as they have waited for weeks- at Old Orchard, Me., U. S. flyers Roger Williams and Lewis Yancey, and French flyers René Lefevre, Jean Assolant and Armeno Lotti Jr.; and at Seville, Spain, French flyers Louis Coudouret and Louis Mallou...
Suddenly the noise ceases. We run out. The French storm-troops are 100 yards away. It is not against these men we fling our bombs. It is against Death, now visible, hunting us down. They keep coming, we fall back to our second line while our artillery mows them down. We want to rest but we are driven forward from behind: we counterattack. Beside me a lance-corporal has his head torn off. He runs a few steps more while the blood spouts from his neck like a fountain. I fall into an open belly. I see a man biting...