Word: georgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General Georg Thomas began in 1935 to form the War Economy Board, Dr. Todt was called in to plan the engineering side of the conquests to come. With Germanic thoroughness he improvised his Economic Mobile Units to salvage anything from an outhouse to a mine in the wake of the armies...
...Working with the bulk of the German Army, which kills or imprisons the enemy physically, are the military Economic Mobile Units, which kill or imprison him materially and financially. These dashing arms of the service are largely the creation of Engineer Fritz Todt and General Georg Thomas. Todt's boys specialize in wrecking and saving: carrying off to Germany everything that can be carried, supervising and maintaining for German benefit everything that cannot. They are speedy and efficient at repairing and replacing damaged equipment and property in war-torn regions. Versatile, they are equally able to strip a country...
...piece of furniture older than 30 years, it has probably been imported from Croatia or somewhere else. We Serbs had to fight, and time and again we have lost everything in defense of our honor and our integrity. The Croats-well, they still have their furniture." The German Minister, Georg Viktor von Heeren, rushed to the Foreign Office to bluster. Old Dr. Nintchitch gave him exactly six minutes to speak his piece...
...lectures, to be held at 4 o'clock in the large lecture room of the Semitic Museum, will be: February 14, "The Secret of the Pyramids," by Professor Georg Steindorff, formerly of the University of Lolpzig; March 13, "Recent Excavations in Syria," by Harald Ingholt, of the University of Aarhus, Denmark; and March 21, "Phoenician and Punic Remains in Sardinia," by Professor Doro Levi, formerly of the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, at present Recorder for the Princeton Excavations at Antioch...
...Practical" men always scorn the philosopher as ineffectual, blathering away while the caissons and tumbrels roll. But philosophers deviously have their days. Absent-minded Philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel innocently begot a dialectic, which begot Marx's socialism, which begot V. I. Lenin, who begot a revolution that made "practical" men tremble in their boots. Russell and Reiser hope that their logic, too, will somehow beget a revolution...