Word: friedrich
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...most important enemy of Christianity today is the German philosopher Friedrich Nictzche," Dean Matthews declared in this connection. "The hero which he presented--the embodiment of the urge for demination, the wordly super-man--is the true anti-Christ of our day. The masses, even in a democracy, must have not only an idea, but that idea embodied in a person; and the choice, is between the Niotzche hero and Christ, who rejects earthly power, preaching service and humility...
Other visitors will be Kurt Lewin, professor of Child Psychology, University of Iowa; Roger A. B. Mynors, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in Latin Literature; Friedrich Sell, of Marburg-ander-Lahn, Germany, in German Literature; George de Santillana, of the New School for Social Research, New York City, in History of Science; and William H. Jellema, associate professor of Philosophy, Indiana University...
...17th Century there was a Krupp in Essen who made a neat parcel of money by selling small arms to the opposing armies in the Thirty Years' War. For two centuries Krupps were modest grocers, moneylenders and ironmasters. Then Prussia placed an order for solid shot with Friedrich Krupp's ironworks and they began to make money in a big way. Since then, war by war, Krupps have grown richer. It is the weary conclusion of German Exile Bernhard Menne, whose biography of the Krupp family was published in the U. S. last week, that there will...
Died. Berthold Neuer, 57, vice president and general manager of William Knabe & Sons (pianos), authority on musical history, friend & adviser of many world-famed musicians (Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Friedrich Schorr); of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...years. Development of Berlin began seriously only with the Great Elector of Brandenburg, who before his death in 1688 had raised the city's population from 8,000 to 20,000 mainly by offering asylum to political and religious refugees. In the early 18th Century, Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I put heart and soul into making Berlin a fitting capital of Prussia, but not until after the victorious war with France in 1871-when Bismarck founded the Second Reich, had King Wilhelm I proclaimed Emperor at Versailles-did Berlin assume world importance. Her population...