Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny March day, during the revolutions of 1848, Germans were happy because King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia had just promised them a parliament. Two royal dragoons accidentally fired their muskets into a jubilant Berlin crowd. In the brief fighting that followed, 255 Berliners were killed. The next day, their bodies were placed before the royal palace, and the King and Queen appeared on their balcony to view them (see cut). The crowd shouted: "Take off your hat!" Frightened, the King obeyed. The crowd shouted: "Come down!" Again the King obeyed, and walked respectfully among the biers...
Huckster Nietzsche. The 19th Century's Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made the grade in 20th Century advertising. In the New York Times, John Ward shoe stores led off an ad for a "neither staid nor stuffy" shoe with the Nietzschean quote: "I am not successful at being pompous...
Since Professor Friedrich will leave the University before the term's end. Louis Hartz, instructor in Government, will complete the courses being given at the present...
Only the "persistent request" for Professor Friedrich's assistance by General Clay led him to accept the appointment. Anxious to do "everything I can to make peace possible," he believes, "This will help...
Soon to appear is another work by Professor Friedrich. The book, "Inevitable Peace," which traces the history of the western notion of inevitable peace, will come out March...