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Word: frisians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest is the Wacht im Westen, which resembles the Frankfurter Zeitung; smallest the Armee-Kurznachrichten, a single half-size sheet of Army notices. The Air Force has its own paper, Der Adler von Friesland (The Frisian Eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Westwall Dailies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...London after the Coronation, an airplane was to take off late this week and, soaring eastward over the North Sea off the low coast of Europe, skirt that continent up to the jigsaw peninsula and archipelago which separate the North Sea from the Baltic. Over Germany's sandy Frisian Islands it would pass, over the fat fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Silver Sanity | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

THIS is a sea-story that his also the autobiography of a Frisian immigrant. It comes to the public highly commended by no less a critic than the late Edward Bok. Mr. Bok was, however, from the Netherlands himself. It is obvious after reading the book that some prejudice must have crept into his introductory encomium...

Author: By A. G. C., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

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